Wei Liu, Fellow of IEEE, received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2012 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently a Distinguished Scientist of Tencent and the Director of Ads Multimedia AI at Tencent Data Platform. Prior to that, he has been a research staff member of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Liu has long been devoted to fundamental research and technological development in core fields of AI, including deep learning, machine learning, reinforcement learning, computer vision, information retrieval, big data, etc. To date, he has published extensively in these fields with more than 280 peer-reviewed technical papers, and issued over 30 US patents.
He currently serves on the editorial boards of internationally leading AI journals like IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), and IEEE Intelligent Systems. He regularly holds an Area Chair of top-tier computer science and AI conferences, e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, IJCAI, and AAAI. Dr. Liu is also a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).