Bang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the University of Montreal. He is a core member of the RALI laboratory (Applied Research in Computer Linguistics) of DIRO, an associate member of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, and a Canada CIFAR AI (CCAI) Chair. He received his B.Engr. degree in 2013 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), as well as his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from University of Alberta in 2015 and 2020, respectively. His research interests primarily lie in the areas of natural language processing (NLP), data mining, multimodal and multitask learning, AI + X (e.g., animation, VR, health). For hobbies, he enjoys drawing, guitar, Japanese Manga, and various sports.

Openings: I am looking for highly-motivated students to work on natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, and a broad range of topics related to artificial intelligence. Please send me your CV if interested.