PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Zhuang Liu

Zhuang Liu is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, where his research builds AI systems that perceive and understand the world. He co-wrote DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion, and the paper won a Best Paper Award at CVPR in 2017. He completed a computer science PhD at UC Berkeley in 2022 and worked as a senior research scientist at Meta AI Research (FAIR) in New York until 2025. He co-wrote A ConvNet for the 2020s, which introduces ConvNeXt, a family of pure ConvNet models that compete favorably with Transformers in terms of accuracy and scalability. He also co-wrote Transformers without Normalization, a CVPR 2025 paper that shows Transformers without normalization can reach the same or better performance.

Works
58
Citations
61,542
h-index
21

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2013

    Yao Class at Tsinghua

    He joins Tsinghua's Yao Class in 2013 as the provincial top scorer among Anhui science students.

  2. 2017

    The DenseNet architecture

    He co-writes DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion, and the paper wins a Best Paper Award at CVPR 2017.

  3. 2017–2022

    A Berkeley doctorate

    He completes a computer science PhD at UC Berkeley in 2022, where he works with Trevor Darrell.

  4. 2021–2025

    Research at Meta FAIR

    He works as a senior research scientist at Meta AI Research (FAIR) in New York until 2025.

  5. 2022

    A ConvNet for the 2020s

    He co-writes A ConvNet for the 2020s, which introduces ConvNeXt, a family of pure ConvNet models that compete favorably with Transformers in terms of accuracy and scalability.

  6. 2025

    Transformers without normalization

    He co-writes Transformers without Normalization, a CVPR 2025 paper that shows Transformers without normalization can reach the same or better performance.

  7. Since July 2025

    Assistant professor at Princeton

    He joins Princeton's computer science department as an assistant professor in July 2025. His research builds AI systems that perceive and understand the world.

Sources and credits

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  1. Zhuang Liu from YaoClass 30 Honored with Best Paper Award at CVPR 2017-Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. [1608.06993] Densely Connected Convolutional Networks arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Zhuang Liu | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Zhuang Liu liuzhuang13.github.io. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Zhuang Liu cs.princeton.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. [2201.03545] A ConvNet for the 2020s arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. CVPR 2022 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. [2503.10622] Transformers without Normalization arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. CVPR 2025 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 15 October 2026.