Han Liu @ Computer Science, Northwestern University

Principal Investigator

      Han Liu, Associate Professor

      Department of Computer Science

      Department of Statistics

      Mudd Hall 3119

      Northwestern University

      Evanston, Illinois 60201

      Email: hanliu@eecs.northwestern.edu

      Phone: (847) 491-2793

     

Biosketch: Han Liu directs the MAGICS(Modern Artificial General Intelligible and Computer Systems) lab at the Northestern University. He has been the director of the deep reinforcement learning center at Tencent AI Lab and had been a professor at the Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. He received a joint PhD in Machine Learning and Statistics from the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon University, advised by John Lafferty and Larry Wasserman. His research integrates modern artificial intelligence and computer systems, which exploits AI-enabled massive computational experiments to revolutionize science, engineering and business. Han Liu has received numerous research awards including the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the Alfred P Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, the ASA Noether Young Scholar Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Howard B Wentz Award and the Umesh Gavaskar Memorial Best Dissertation Award. He is now serving as associate editors for the Journal of American Statistical Association, the Electronic Journal of Statistics, the Technometrics, and the Journal of Portfolio Management.

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Honors

  • 2019- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
  • 2017- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Math.
  • 2017- Princeton SEAS E-Council Teaching Award.
  • 2016- Best Paper Prize on the 5th ICCOPT Conf.
  • 2016- Plenary Speaker in 2016 INFORMS OPT Conf.
  • 2016- Princeton SEAS E-Council Teaching Award.
  • 2015- IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award.
  • 2015- ASA Noether Young Scholar Award.
  • 2015- NSF CAREER Award in Statistics Science.
  • 2015- Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award.
  • 2013- Notable Paper Award in the 16th AISTATS.
  • 2013- Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship.
  • 2012- Teaching Excellence Award from Johns Hopkins Univ.
  • 2012- ASA David P. Byar Young Investigator Travel Award
  • 2011- ADHD-200 Global Competition Championship
  • 2011- Umesh Gavasakar Memorial Best Dissertation Award
  • 2010- J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship from UT-Asutin
  • 2010- ASA Best Student Paper Award in Stats Computing
  • 2009- ICML Best Overall Paper Award Honorable Mention
  • 2009- ICML Best Student Paper Award
  • 2009- Winner of the ICML Best Student Paper Award
  • 2009- AISTATS Best Paper Award Nomination
  • 2009- Google PHD Fellowship in Statistics

  • Former Lab Members

    Heather Battey

    Assistant Professor at Imperial College London.

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    Krishna Balasubramanian

    Assistant Professor at UC Davis.

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    Carson Eisenach

    Co-Founder of the Ace Research.

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    Ethan Xingyuan Fang

    Assistant Professor at Penn State University.

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    Quanquan Gu

    Assistant Professor at UCLA.

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    Fang Han

    Assistant Professor at University of Washington.

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    Junwei Lu

    Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

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    Matey Neykov

    Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.

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    Yang Ning

    Assistant Professor at Cornell University.

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    Qiang Sun

    Assistant Professor at University of Toronto.

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    Keanming Tan

    Assistant Professor at Univeristy of Minnesota.

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    Zhaoran Wang

    Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.

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    Tianqi Zhao

    Quantitative Trader at Barclays Investment Bank.

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    Tuo Zhao

    Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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    Wenxin Zhou

    Assistant Professor at UC San Diego.

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    Reading Group

    We have biweekly reading group. The topics of this quarter include conversational AI, object detection and optimal character recognition, deep reinforcement learning, robotics operating system.

    Get In Touch

    Department of Computer Science
    Mudd Hall 3119
    Northwestern University
    Evanston, IL 60201
    Phone: +847 491 2793
    Email: hanliu@northwestern.edu