Zicheng Liu — CEO
Zicheng Liu is currently a senior director of GenAI at AMD. Before joining AMD, he was a partner research manager at Microsoft Azure AI managing computer vision and vision language research team. Zicheng Liu received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1996. He got his B.S. degree in mathematics from HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan, China, in 1984, and his M.S. in Operations Research from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1989. Before joining Microsoft Research, he worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. as a member of technical staff for two years, where he developed the trimmed NURBS tessellator shipped in both OpenGL and the OpenGL Optimizer. Current research interests include vision-language learning, 3D human body and hand reconstruction, dynamic convolution, and human activity recognition. He has worked on a variety of topics including Steiner trees, average case complexity, linked figure animation, 3D face modeling and animation, and trimmed NURBS tessellation for large CAD model visualization. Liu has served in the technical committee for many international conferences. He was a member of the Audio and Electroacoustics Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is the chair of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE CAS society. He is a steering committee member of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, and an associate editor of Machine Vision and Applications. He served as a guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and a guest editor of IEEE Multimedia Magazine. He is an affiliate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. He was an IEEE distinguished lecturer from 2015-2016. He is a fellow of IEEE. AMD GenAI team webpage: https://amdgenai.github.io/team/ Publications: https://zicliu.wixsite.com/mysite/publications His personal webpage: https://zicliu.wix.com/mysite https://sites.google.com/view/zichengliu/home Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bkALdvsAAAAJ
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and computer vision research, with a strong focus on advanced visualization techniques.
Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Experience: 31 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Computer Vision
Career Highlights
- Expert in vision-language learning and computer vision.
- Led significant research teams at Microsoft and AMD.
- Published extensively in top-tier journals and conferences.
Work Experience
AMD
Senior Director of GenAI (2 yrs 4 mos)
Microsoft
Partner Research Manager (28 yrs 7 mos)
Silicon Graphics
Member of Technical Staff (2 yrs 2 mos)
SGI
Member of Technical Staff (2 yrs)
Education
PhD at Princeton University