Dr Liu is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Dr Liu is also the director of Sydney AI Centre and a senior lecturer at University of Sydney, Australia; a visiting professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China; and a visiting scientist of RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, Japan. He works as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and has been widely recognized by his research.

Dr Liu research interests lie in providing mathematical and theoretical foundations to justify and understand (deep) machine learning models and designing efficient learning algorithms for problems in computer vision and data mining, with a particular emphasis on:

·       Learning with noisy labels.

·       Deep adversarial learning

·       Causal representation learning.

·       Deep transfer learning.

·       Deep unsupervised learning.

·       Statistical deep learning theory.

Dr Liu was ranked among the Best Rising Stars of Science in Australia by Research.com in 2022; he was ranked among the Global Top Young Chinese Scholars in AI by Baidu Scholar in 2022; he was named in the Early Achievers Leader board by The Australian in 2020. He is the Action Editor of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and in the Editorial Board of Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Machine Learning journal.