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Dr. Wei Liu is currently a Distinguished Scientist of Tencent, China. He takes the director of Multimodal AI at Tencent Data Platform, and 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 an Adjunct Professor at City University of Hong Kong, a Guest Full Professor at Fudan University, China, and a Guest Full Professor at Zhejiang 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 2020-2024 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 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition), and is an Elected Member of the NAAI (National Academy of Artificial Intelligence) and ISI (International Statistical Institute). Dr. Liu is an Elected Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee for 2024-2025.