Tie-Yan Liu

Tie-Yan Liu is the founding President of Zhongguancun Academy in Beijing. His research spans machine learning and its application to industrial transformation and scientific discovery, with pioneering contributions to learning to rank, computational advertising, efficient and distributed machine learning, unsupervised machine translation, and scalable AI-for-Science models. Before starting the Academy in 2024, he spent over two decades at Microsoft Research (MSR), serving as Assistant Managing Director of MSR Asia and later as Distinguished Scientist of MSR AI for Science. He has published several hundred papers, cited over 110,000 times with an h-index of 115, and has served as program chair and senior area chair at major AI conferences. BenchCouncil's AI100 list names him among the most influential contributors to AI since 1943, and his work LightGBM among the 100 most important achievements in the field. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and the ACM, and has held adjunct or honorary professorships at Carnegie Mellon, Tsinghua, and the University of Nottingham, among others.