Her current research interests span from Multimodal AI and Self-supervised Learning to Reinforcement Learning and AI for Science. Dr. Liu has published 90+ papers at top AI conferences and journals (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, etc.) with 10K+ citations, and has received the Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Awards at CVPR and WACV. Before joining Tsinghua University in 2021, Dr. Liu was Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft in Redmond, US, leading a research group on Vision+Language Multimodal AI. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, Dr. Liu was Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL in Cambridge, US, with the research focus on Spoken Dialogue Systems. Dr. Liu received the PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT EECS. She also holds an MBA degree from Judge Business School (JBS) at University of Cambridge in the UK.