Yang Liu
Associate Professor
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolYang Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University with eight years of experience spanning academia and industry. He transitioned from a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton to applied AI and data science roles at Air Products, Dataminr, and WeBank before returning to academia, bringing strong cross-disciplinary problem-solving skills. His work blends rigorous research with production-focused AI development, having led principal research efforts in an industry AI lab and contributed to data-driven products at Dataminr. Based in Beijing, he combines deep engineering foundations with academic scholarship to mentor students and drive translational research. An uncommon thread in his career is the pivot from chemical engineering to leading-edge AI, signaling adaptability and a systems-level view of complex problems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Chemical Engineering, B.S., Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityPh.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University
Github Skills (11)
machine-translation10
natural-language-generation10
nlp10
nmt10
neural-machine-translation10
translation10
natural-language-processing10
language-processing10
deep-learning8
information-theory5
text-generation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
THUNLP-MT/MT-Toolkit-List
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
THUNLP-MT/MT-Reading-List
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
A machine translation reading list maintained by Tsinghua Natural Language Processing Group
Contributions:59 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 1 month
nlptsinghuanatural-language-generationmachine-translationtranslation
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