Dr. Zhiwei Liu is a senior applied scientist at Bing Search, Microsoft AI. He was a senior research scientist at Salesforce AI Research from 2022-2026. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Illinois at Chicago on Aug. 2022. Liu's research interests lie in AI agents, recommender systems, large language models, and multi-modal. Dr. Liu has authored over 100 papers in top-tier venues such as ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, EMNLP, and etc, holding 12 patents globally. He serves as an Associate Editor of JMLC, Guest Editor of ACM TORS, and a program committee member for major conferences including NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, WWW, KDD and etc.
Email: zhiweiliu [at] microsoft [dot] com [OR] jim96liu [at] gmail [dot] com
[May 2026] I just joined Bing Search at Microsoft AI as a Senior Applied Scientist.
BOLAA: Benchmarking and Orchestrating LLM-augmented Autonomous Agents
DialogStudio: Towards Richest and Most Diverse Unified Dataset Collection for Conversational AI
Contrastive self-supervised sequential recommendation with robust augmentation
Continuous-Time Sequential Recommendation with Temporal Graph Collaborative Transformer
Augmenting Sequential Recommendation with Pseudo-Prior Items via Reversely Pre-training Transformer