Summary
Zhixin Liu is a Director of Data Services and seasoned AI/optimization leader with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and over eight years of industry leadership across e-commerce and logistics. He has built and managed 100+ person data science and algorithms teams at companies like Coupang and ByteDance, delivering ML, OR, and CV solutions that cut fulfillment and labor costs and optimize inventory, network design, and demand forecasting. His technical depth spans machine learning, reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization, information theory and signal processing, and he codes across Python, Java, Golang and C. As a founder and former CTO, he pairs product-minded entrepreneurship with rigorous research experience from Texas A&M and Tsinghua, enabling practical deployment of advanced models in production. Notably, he has applied NLP for GIS problems (POI segmentation and address matching) and led cross-discipline projects integrating CV, RL and OR to improve logistics efficiency. Based in Seoul, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering to translate complex stochastic and optimization theory into measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PH.D Electrical Engineering, PH.D Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University
M.S. and B.S Electronic Engineering, M.S. and B.S Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University