Ziwei Liu
Also known as 刘子纬
Ziwei Liu is a computer-vision researcher whose work includes face-attribute learning and the CelebA dataset. He earned degrees at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and CUHK, then held research posts at UC Berkeley and CUHK before taking a faculty post at NTU. CelebA received the 2024 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize, and the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship recognized his work on AI-driven mixed reality. In 2025, he received Singapore’s Young Scientist Award for generative AI; as of October 2026, he is an Associate Professor (Provost’s Chair in AI) at NTU.
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Timeline
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2013–2017
Training in vision research
He earned a B.E. in Electronics and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013 and completed a Ph.D. at CUHK’s Multimedia Lab in 2017.
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2015
Labeling faces at scale
He coauthored “Deep Learning Face Attributes in the Wild,” which introduced cascaded LNet and ANet networks for face-attribute prediction. Its associated CelebA dataset contains more than 200,000 celebrity images with 40 attribute annotations per image.
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2017–2020
Berkeley and CUHK research posts
He completed a postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley from 2017 to 2018, then served as a research fellow at CUHK from 2018 to 2020.
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2020
A faculty post at MMLab
He began an assistant professorship at MMLab in 2020.
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2024
Two honors for visual AI
CelebA received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize, and the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship recognized his work on AI-driven mixed reality.
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2025
Singapore’s Young Scientist Award
He received Singapore’s Young Scientist Award for contributions to generative AI, including how it perceives, understands and recreates the visual world.
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As of October 2026
An AI chair at NTU
He is an Associate Professor (Provost’s Chair in AI) in MMLab@NTU at Nanyang Technological University.
Sources and credits
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