Yong Liu

Dr. Yong Liu has been working in Big Data Science, Machine learning and Optimization since his doctoral student years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and later as a Senior Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he led data science R&D projects funded by National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. He then joined Microsoft and AI/ML startups (Maana, Outreach, Plunk) in the industry. He is currently a Principal Scientist at Salesforce. He has been leading projects in machine learning, NLP, sales engagement graph entity extraction, conflation, link prediction and knowledge-infused learning. He has shipped ML and DL models to production and has been a speaker at the Spark/Data+AI summit and NLP Summit. He has recently published peer-reviewed papers on deep learning, linked data and knowledge-infused learning at various ACM/IEEE conferences and Journals.