Yan Liu (computer scientist)
Yan Liu is a Chinese and American computer scientist whose research applies machine learning to time series data with applications including climate modeling, transportation planning, social media, and biostatistics. She is a professor in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Sciences in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California.
Education and career
Liu received a bachelor's degree in 2001 from the Peking University Department of Computer Science and Technology. She continued her studies in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she received a master's degree in 2004 and completed her Ph.D. in 2007. Her dissertation, Conditional Graphical Models for Protein Structure Prediction, was supervised by Jaime Carbonell.She became a researcher for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, from 2006 to 2010. In 2010 she joined the University of Southern California as an assistant professor of computer science. She was promoted to associate professor in 2016, and went on leave for a year in 2018 to become chief scientist at DiDi AI Labs in Beijing. Returning to USC, She was promoted to full professor in 2021.