Scholar
Minghao Liu
Google Scholar ID: 77dTmmgAAAAJ
UC Santa Cruz
Citations & Impact
Citations
145
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
15
Co-authors
35
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation and graduated from UC Santa Cruz in Spring 2025
- “GenIR: Generative Visual Feedback for Mental Image Retrieval” accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (Co-first Author)
- “Tag-based annotation creates better avatars” accepted to NeSy 2025 (First Author)
- “Controllable Biophysical Human Faces” accepted to EGSR 2025 (CGF track) (First Author)
- “Human and AI perceptual differences in image classification errors” accepted to AAAI 2025 with Oral Presentation (4.6% acceptance rate, First Author)
- Recipient of UCSC Dissertation-Year Fellowship (2024–25)
- Led undergraduate team to win DEANS’ CHANCELLOR’S UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD in 2024 (<3% selection rate)
- First-author papers accepted to ECCV 2022 and ICPR 2022; additional paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
- Served as reviewer for top-tier conferences including AAAI, ICLR, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ECCV, ICCV, WWW, KDD, and SIGGRAPH (2023–2025)
Research Experience
- Advanced AI Research Scientist Manager at Accenture (Mountain View, CA) since June 2025, working on simulation systems and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model integrations with the Physical AI team
- 7-month research intern at Meta (Sausalito, CA) during summer 2024 to early 2025
- Research intern at Meta (Sausalito, CA) in summer 2023
- Research intern / paper collaborator at ByteDance-CVG from summer 2021 to December 2022, advised by Jing Liu and Shen Sang
- Co-Instructor for CMPM 118 at UCSC (2022–2023), leading undergraduate research in computer vision and ML (avatar creation, annotation systems, ChatGPT evaluation on math problems)
