
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaSustainable materials design; AI-driven materials discovery; Property prediction and optimization; Materials testing and evaluation; Data-driven multiscale modeling
Zhen Liu is an assistant professor at the School of Data Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Mila and University of Montreal. Between 2022 and 2024, he was a visiting student at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Zhen Liu’s research focuses on principled and novel machine learning methods for 1) 3D modeling and generation and 2) vision/language foundation models. He is also widely interested in representation learning and probabilistic methods. He published papers at top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV and SIGGRAPH Asia, of which some were selected for oral/spotlight presentations.
