Yang Liu is a GDS Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He serves as the Executive Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) and Associate Dean of the department. His research interests encompass artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and medical AI.

Dr. Liu has received several prestigious awards, including the COLING/ACL 2006 Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award, ACL 2017 Outstanding Paper Award, ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award, and ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention. He has contributed to the field through roles such as Executive Committee Member of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of ACL, Editorial Board Member of Computational Linguistics, and Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP).