Di Liu

AI Research Scientist

Di Liu is an accomplished research professional with experience in artificial intelligence and computer science, notably serving as a Research Scientist Intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. in 2023, focusing on the instantaneous perception of moving objects in 3D. Di Liu continued to develop expertise as an AI Research Scientist at Meta from July 2025 to November 2024, contributing to Universal Layered Codec Avatars. Prior experience includes an Applied Scientist Intern position at Amazon in 2025, where work involved multi-modal LLMs and diffusion models for personalized recommendation, and a Research Scientist Intern role at Snap Inc., focusing on the instant generation of animatable dual-stylized avatars. Di Liu also interned at Microsoft from January 2024 to May 2024, working on large-scale multi-modality pretraining and vision-language models for visual understanding. Educational credentials include a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University–New Brunswick and degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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