Zhiwei Liu
Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiwei Liu is a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce with a decade of experience building and researching large-scale ML systems, currently focusing on LLM-augmented agents, recommender systems, and large embedding models. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIC and has blended academic rigor with product-focused internships at Instacart, Walmart Labs, and JD.com, working on graph neural networks, product graphs, and visual object detection. At Salesforce he progressed from research intern to research scientist and now senior research scientist, contributing to production-relevant research in industry AI. Based in Palo Alto, he brings both deep theoretical background and practical deployment experience, often bridging prototypes to real-world recommender and embedding pipelines. An interesting thread across his work is using inductive and graph-based methods to make large models more actionable in recommendation and agent settings.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and TechnologyUniversity of California, San DiegoPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Illinois at ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (44)
representation-learning10
temporal10
graph10
natural-language-understanding10
unsupervised-learning10
self-supervised-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
credit10
contrastive-learning10
sequential10
anomaly-detection9
toolbox9
graph-algorithms9
pytorch9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JimLiu96/FederatedRS
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
JimLiu96/JSCN
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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