Yong Liu (Ph.D.)

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Senior Principal Researcher

Search & Recommendation Lab, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Singapore

Email: liu(dot)yong6(at)huawei(dot)com

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Dr. Yong Liu is a Senior Principal Researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Singapore. Prior to joining Huawei, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), a Data Scientist at NTUC Enterprise, and a Research Scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from NTU in 2016 and B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2008. His current research interests include LLM Agents, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Generative Search & Recommendation. He has been invited as a Area Chair/(Senior) PC member of major conferences, such as ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW, SIGIR, ACL, IJCAI, AAAI, and reviewer for IEEE/ACM transactions.

We have several vacancies for research interns and full-time research staffs in areas related to LLM Agents, (Multimodal) Retrieval-augmented Generation, and Generative Search & Recommendation. Please send me your CV via email, if you have interests.

News!!!

  • 2025/01: We have 2 papers accepted by WWW 2025, 1 paper accepted by DASFAA on recommendation systems, 1 paper accepted by ICLR 2025 on LLM Agent tool calling.

  • 2024/12: We have a paper accepted by COLING 2025 on LLM Agent planning.

  • 2024/11: We have a paper accepted by KDD 2025 on long-term user behavior modeling for CTR prediction.

  • 2024/09: We have a paper accepted by EMNLP Findings 2024 on retrieval-augmented generation.

  • 2024/09: Listed among the World's Top 2% of Scientists, Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, identified by Stanford University.

  • 2024/08: Our paper titled “Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation” receives the ACM KDD 2024 Best Student Paper Award.