Qi Liu
Qi Liu is an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, and his research covers natural language processing and machine learning. He co-founded Reka, which emerged from stealth with $58 million in 2023. Before taking up his HKU post in 2022, he worked as a researcher at Facebook AI Research and as a research scientist intern at Google DeepMind. Forbes listed him among its 30 Under 30 Asia honorees for 2023, in healthcare and science. He is one of the authors listed on the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge report, which appeared on arXiv in 2024.
Timeline
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2016
A Microsoft Research internship
He works as a research intern at Microsoft Research in Beijing from September 2016 to December 2016.
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2018–2019
Molecule design at NeurIPS
In 2018 he co-writes Constrained Graph Variational Autoencoders for Molecule Design, a NeurIPS paper. From August 2018 to August 2019 he works as a researcher at Facebook AI Research in New York.
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2020–2021
A research internship at DeepMind
From July 2020 to June 2021 he works as a research scientist intern at Google DeepMind in London.
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February 2023
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
Forbes lists him among its 30 Under 30 Asia honorees for 2023, in the healthcare and science category.
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June 2023
Co-founding Reka
He is a cofounder of Reka, which emerges from stealth in 2023 with $58 million in funding.
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April 2024
Reka Core, Flash, and Edge
He appears in the author list of the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge report, a 2024 arXiv paper on multimodal language models.
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As of October 2026
Assistant professor and cofounder
He is an assistant professor at HKU, a post he takes up in 2022, and a cofounder of Reka. His research interests include natural language processing and machine learning.
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