About
I am a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Qiang Liu from UT Austin.
In the past, I was a senior tech lead at SambaNova Systems working on software and hardware codesign.
Before that, I obtained my B.S. in CS from UIUC advised by Prof. Bo Li.
Recently, I joined Microsoft Core AI as a Senior Research Scientist.
I am also actively contributing to opensourced frameworks, such as Gradio and Transformers.
Interests
Efficient training and efficient neural architecture, for more details please refer to my research statement
Opensource Contribution: 🤗Huggingface timm adopts Cautious Optimizers
One of the last minute papers I added support for that delayed this release was 'Cautious Optimizers'... Consider me impressed, this boost appears more consistent than some of the new optimizers.
— Ross Wightman (@wightmanr) December 3, 2024Blogposts
Selected Publications
Kaizhao Liang, Lizhang Chen, Bo Liu, Qiang Liu
Kaizhao Liang, Bo Liu, Lizhang Chen, Qiang Liu
Beidi Chen, Tri Dao, Kaizhao Liang, Jiaming Yang, Zhao Song, Atri Rudra, Christopher Re
Kaizhao Liang*, Jacky. Y. Zhang*, Boxin Wang, Zhuolin Yang, Sanmi Koyejo, Bo Li
Past Media Coverage
Coverage on advances in accessible AI deployment involving Hugging Face.
Highlights collaboration and emerging competition in the generative AI space.
Review Service
CVPR[2021-2023], ICCV[2021, 2025], ICLR[2022-2024], AISTATS2022, NEURIPS[2023-2025]
Contact
kaizhaol@utexas.edu