Dr Hengyan Liu is an Assistant Professor in the AIAT at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). He holds both a doctoral degree and a master’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London. He has extensive research and project experience, having worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London for two years and as a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University for one year. He has also led a UKRI-funded project.

His research interests span deep learning, reinforcement learning (RL), computer vision (CV),  and large language models. 

• CV: Generative AI, image segmentation, object detection, medical image analysis, lesion segmentation and synthesis, anomaly detection, and computer-aided diagnosis.
• RL: world models, causal RL, and vision-language-action (VLA) systems.

Deep Learning, Large Language Models,

Reinforcement Learning,

Computer Vision,

Optimization Theory.

Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2023-present;

Lecturer, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2022-2023;

PhD Research Assistant, Tsinghua University, 2020-2021;

Convex Optimization; Computer Vision; Coding Theory

2023, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent of Jiangsu Province (江苏省‘双创博士’)

Best Paper Awards, SMC-IoT, 2024