Fei Liu

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About Fei Liu

Dr. Fei Liu is an Associate Professor at Emory University and leads the AI/LLM Agents Research Group. Her research advances the frontiers of natural language processing and large language models, with a focus on LLM inference, structured reasoning, tool use, summarization, and long-horizon planning. She is committed to building scalable systems that deliver high-impact, cost-effective AI technologies.Liu held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University as a member of Noah's ARK. Prior to that, she was a Senior Scientist at Bosch Research in Palo Alto, California, leading applied research in intelligent car systems and smart devices. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas as an Erik Jonsson Distinguished Research Fellow and received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Fudan University.Dr. Liu has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and she regularly serves on program committees for major international conferences. In 2015, she was selected for the MIT Rising Stars in EECS program. Her research has received multiple honors, including a Best Paper Award Finalist at 2016, an Area Chair Favorite Paper at COLING 2018, an Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award in 2020, the NSF CAREER Award in 2022, and a SAC Highlights Award at ACL 2025, which recognized the top 1% of more than paper submissions.