Renjie Liao

I'm a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Brain, working with Geoffrey Hinton and David Fleet.
I will join UBC ECE and CS (associated) as an assistant professor in Jan. 2022.

I'm interested in machine learning and its interplay with vision, self-driving, language, and other areas. In the long run, I am keen to build learning systems that excel at reasoning. Recently, I've been focusing on deep learning for structures/graphs, which I believe is key to approaching reasoning.

I received my PhD from UofT, advised by Richard Zemel and Raquel Urtasun. During my PhD, I also worked as a research scientist at Uber ATG and was affiliated with Vector Institute. I obtained my MPhil from CUHK, advised by Jiaya Jia. I got my BEng from Beihang.

How to Join

Email: rjliao@google.com rjliao@cs.toronto.edu

"There is nothing as practical as a good theory." - Kurt Lewin
"The test of all knowledge is experiment." - Richard Feynman

News (More)

I successfully defended my PhD on Dec. 18 2020 (Dept.) and Mar. 19 2021 (SGS).

1 paper is accepted to ICLR 2021

1 paper is accepted to IEEE TPAMI 2020

4 papers (1 Oral) are accepted to ECCV 2020

1 paper is accepted to ICML 2020

I am co-organizing ICML 2020 Workshop on Bridge Between Perception and Reasoning: Graph Neural Networks & Beyond

I am co-organizing ICML 2020 Workshop on Graph Representation Learning and Beyond (GRL+)

1 paper is accepted to ICRA 2020

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Last Updated: Apr. 3, 2021