Dr. Liao has 20+ years of in-depth R&D experience across academia, industry, and government. She has developed many research projects and industrial products as well as authorized 60+ peer-reviewed research publications, including two books on 3D graphics & GPUs and one book chapter on Big Data computing with a new computational brain model. In the recent high-tech booming era, she was CTO/Head of Research in industries, including a Fortune Global 30 company, and led the R&D of emerging technologies in multimodal AI, Big Data, self-driving cars, 3D/VR/AR/XR, and geospatial computing. She initiated and established bridges between government, industry, and universities, which formulated cutting-edge technology directions. Before, she worked at the U.S. DOT FAA & FHWA research center/national laboratories.

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Multimodal AI
• AI for Music, Natural language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV)
• Brain Computing, Machine Learning (ML), Big Data Computing
• Self-driving Cars, Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), AI Safety
• 3D Graphics, VR/AR/XR, Multicore Architectures, Geospatial Computing

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, George Washington University
• MS, Computer Science, Purdue University

In memory of my esteemed advisors, Prof. Simon Y. Berkovich and Prof. Christoph M. Hoffmann