Biography

Yang Liu is currently a senior principal scientist at Amazon Alexa. Before joining Amazon, Yang was the head of LAIX Silicon Valley AI lab, a research scientist at Facebook, visiting scientist at Google, a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas, and a researcher at ICSI in Berkeley. Yang received her BS and MS from Tsinghua University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University. She received the NSF CAREER Award and Air Force Young Investigator Award when she was a faculty member at UT Dallas. She is currently a member of the IEEE SLTC committee, a senior area editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, and an action editor for TACL. She is the general chair for ACL 2023 and was one of the program chairs for EMNLP 2020. She is an IEEE fellow and an ISCA fellow.

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