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Liu Ziyin

Liu Ziyin

I am a research scientist at MIT. My research lies at the mysterious-and-fantastic union and intersection of mathematics, physics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. At MIT, I work with Isaac Chuang and Tomaso Poggio. My research focus is on the theoretical foundation of deep learning.

Prior to coming to MIT, I received my PhD in physics at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Masahito Ueda. I received a Bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. I also serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.

Personally, I am interested in art, literature, and philosophy. I also play Go. If you have questions or want to collaborate, or just want to say hi, feel free to send an email.

About my name: My first name is Ziyin and last name is Liu, though on publications I stick to the eastern convention of [last name] [first name]. So please feel free to call me Ziyin or Dr. Liu, but when adding my name to publications write “Liu Ziyin.”

Research Interest

I am particularly interested in identifying scientific principles of both artificial and biological intelligence (what is a principle?), and I think tools and intuitions from other scientific fields can help.

On the AI side, I work on:

  • Theories of deep learning
  • Universal laws of AI (!!!)
  • Grand unified theory of intelligence (!!!!!)

On the neuroscience side, I work on

  • Connectomics
  • Principles of circuit organization in the brain

For my selected works, see below, and for my full list of publications and preprints, see publications.

liu.ziyin.p (at) gmail.com