Summary
Yu Liu is a research scientist at Bytedance AI Lab with 18 years of engineering and research experience focused on computer and robotic vision, particularly deep learning for 2D and 3D scene understanding. He completed a joint PhD training between the University of Adelaide and ETH Zurich, contributing to robotic vision and light-stage 3D reconstruction projects at top labs including USC and ETH. Yu has bridged academia and industry through internships at JD AI and Tencent, led a 25-person technical team building SaaS and AR try-on products, and shipped production software earlier in his career at the Agricultural Bank of China. He combines rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on product delivery, aiming to equip domain experts with practical data-science tools. Based in Pudong, Shanghai, he is approachable for collaboration and maintains a public research portfolio and personal site for deeper detail.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Vision and Deep Learning, PhD, Computer Vision and Deep Learning at The University of Adelaide
Bachelor's degree, Software Enginnering, 1/106, Bachelor's degree, Software Enginnering, 1/106 at Southwest University
Doctor of Philosophy-PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy-PhD, Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Master's degree, Computer Science, 1/51, Master's degree, Computer Science, 1/51 at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English