Hugh (Yin) Liu
Last updated: Oct 2024.
I'm a software engineer at Google. I'm broadly interested in advanced algorithms, computational complextity (especially in counting problems), machine learning, augmented reality and advanced modeling and simulation.
I support slow science.
Prior to joining Google, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was in the Theory Group and fortunate to be advised by Professor Jin-Yi Cai. Before joining UW-Madison, I received my B.Eng. in Automation from Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. During my graduate studies, I interned at Google and SiriusXM, working on various projects. During my undergraduate studies, I interned at Cornell University, where I was luckily advised by Professor John E. Hopcroft and Dr. Gao Huang.
Contact
- Work Email: hughliu AT google DOT com
- Personal Email: yinl AT cs DOT wisc DOT edu
Education
- University of Wisconsin - Madison 2018 - 2023
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
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Tsinghua University 2014 - 2018
B.Eng. in Automation
Internships
- Google, Sunnyvale, CA, 2023 summer.
- Google, Mountain View, CA, 2022 summer.
- SiriusXM-Pandora, remotely, 2021 summer.
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2017.
Publications
(* - alphabetical authorship)
Yin Liu (single author). COCOON 2024.
Yin Liu, Austen Z. Fan and Jin-Yi Cai. COCOA 2023.
Invited to Special Issue.
Journal version in Theoretical Computer Science, 2025.
Jin-Yi Cai, Austen Z. Fan and Yin Liu. FCT 2021.
Invited to Special Issue.
Journal version in Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2023.
- Adopting Linear Model to Accelerate Neural Network Training
Yin Liu, Junyi Wei, Zijun Ma, Hanying Jiang and Yihan Zhang. MMLS 2019.
Jiahui Huang, Jun Gao, Vignesh Ganapathi-Subramanian, Hao Su, Yin Liu, Chengcheng Tang and Leonidas Guibas. CVM 2019.
Wenxun Zheng, Yin Liu, Zhen Chen and Junwei Cao. ANCS 2017.
Academic Services
Conference reviewer: WINE'24, AAAI'25.
Scholarship & Honors
- Summer RA-ship Award, UW-Madison, 2019
- Special CS Scholarship, UW-Madison, 2018
- Science and Technology Innovation Excellence Award, Tsinghua University, 2017
- Hage Scholarship for Excellent Performance, Dept of Automation, Tsinghua University, 2016, 2017
- Ronghua Zhang Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance, Tsinghua University, 2015
- 1st prize in Chinese Mathematical Olympiad in province, 2013
- 1st prize in Chinese Physics Olympiad in province, 2013
Miscellaneous
- I race go-karts and is the runner-up inside the work team.
- I love playing sports, especially soccer, tabata core, table-tennis, running and figure roller skating.
- I also play tennis, basketball, swim and do decathlon training from time to time.
- I have a rank of top 8 in both 8-ball and 9-ball games in Madison, WI. Moreover, I am the runner-up in the 8-ball games among Chinese students.
- I had been the Chairman of Tsinghua Alumni Association in Wisconsin (TAAW) for one year.