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Pursue excellence and impact in both academia and industry.
Pursue excellence and impact in both academia and industry.
Dr. Wei Liu is currently a Distinguished Scientist of Tencent, China. He takes the director of Multimodal AI at Tencent Data Platform, and has taken the director of Computer Vision at Tencent AI Lab. Dr. Liu is the core co-founder and chief AI scientist of Tencent's generative foundation model - HunYuan. Dr. Liu is a Guest Full Professor in the School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China. Prior to joining Tencent, he received the Ph.D. degree in EECS from Columbia University, USA, and was a research scientist and staff member of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA.
Dr. Wei Liu is currently a Distinguished Scientist of Tencent, China. He takes the director of Multimodal AI at Tencent Data Platform, and has taken the director of Computer Vision at Tencent AI Lab. Dr. Liu is the core co-founder and chief AI scientist of Tencent's generative foundation model - HunYuan. Dr. Liu is a Guest Full Professor in the School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China. Prior to joining Tencent, he received the Ph.D. degree in EECS from Columbia University, USA, and was a research scientist and staff member of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA.
Dr. Liu has long been devoted to fundamental research and technological development in core fields of AI. His research works win numerous awards and honors, e.g., the 2011 Facebook Fellowship, the 2012 IBM Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2013 Jury Award for Best Thesis of Columbia University, the 2016 and 2017 SIGIR Best Paper Award Honorable Mentions, the 2018 "AI's 10 To Watch" Award, the 2020-2023 World's Top 2% Scientists honor, etc. Dr. Liu is an Associate/Action Editor of internationally leading AI&CS journals IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), ACM Computing Surveys, and Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), and is an Area Chair of top-tier computer science and AI conferences NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, and AAAI. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition), IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications), BCS (British Computer Society), RSA (Royal Society of Arts), AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association), and ACIS (Asia Computational Intelligence Society), and is an Elected Member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute). Dr. Liu is an Elected Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee for 2024-2025.
Dr. Liu has long been devoted to fundamental research and technological development in core fields of AI. His research works win numerous awards and honors, e.g., the 2011 Facebook Fellowship, the 2012 IBM Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2013 Jury Award for Best Thesis of Columbia University, the 2016 and 2017 SIGIR Best Paper Award Honorable Mentions, the 2018 "AI's 10 To Watch" Award, the 2020-2023 World's Top 2% Scientists honor, etc. Dr. Liu is an Associate/Action Editor of internationally leading AI&CS journals IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), ACM Computing Surveys, and Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), and is an Area Chair of top-tier computer science and AI conferences NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, and AAAI. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition), IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications), BCS (British Computer Society), RSA (Royal Society of Arts), AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association), and ACIS (Asia Computational Intelligence Society), and is an Elected Member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute). Dr. Liu is an Elected Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee for 2024-2025.