Zhi Liu is an Applied Research Scientist at Meta AI with 11 years of experience applying NLP, conversational AI, and machine learning to real-world products. Trained at Tsinghua (BS, PhD) with a visiting PhD stint at UC Berkeley, he combines deep academic grounding with industry practice from roles at Xiaomi and Meta. At Meta since 2020, he focuses on research-driven solutions that bridge cutting-edge language models and deployable conversational systems. Known for bringing rigorous automation and control-theory thinking from his department of automation background to ML problems, he excels at turning complex research into scalable features. Based in Menlo Park, he balances theoretical depth with product-minded engineering across large-scale AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting PhD Student, Computer Science, Visiting PhD Student, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (BS), Department of Automation, Bachelor of Science (BS), Department of Automation at Tsinghua University
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