Summary
Yongchao Liu is a Staff Engineer at Ant Group leading a team building a distributed graph learning system, with nine years of professional experience bridging research and production. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and has held research roles at Georgia Tech and the University of Mainz, bringing deep expertise in parallel computing, heterogeneous acceleration, and bioinformatics. Yongchao’s work is recognized by multiple Best Paper awards and a data-partnership grant, reflecting a track record of novel parallel algorithms and tools for large-scale biological data analytics. Comfortable moving between clusters, accelerators, and machine learning frameworks, he focuses on making high-performance research practical at cloud scale. Based in Hangzhou, he combines academic rigor with product-minded engineering to drive scalable ML infrastructure and graph learning innovations.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Engineering, Ph.D, Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University
Master, Computer Science and Technology, Master, Computer Science and Technology at Nankai University
Chinese, English