Haofu Liao
Applied Scientist Tech Lead | Vision-Language & Multimodal Models | AWS | ICCV · EMNLP · CVPR | Production AI Systems
- Role
- Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Haofu Liao
Senior Applied Scientist with 5+ years of experience building production ML systems at AWS, leading cross-functional teams of 6+ scientists from research to deployment. Expert in vision-language models, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training, with deep expertise in synthetic data generation and model optimization. Launched 3 major AWS products (Quick Automate, Bedrock Data Automation, Textract AnalyzeExpense) serving enterprise customers. Published 10+ first/co-first–author papers at top-tier venues (ICCV, EMNLP, CVPR), with 2,300+ citations (h-index 25). Proven track record of translating cutting-edge research into scalable ML systems with measurable business impact.
Experience
Principal Applied Scientist
Apr 2026 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Education
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communication Engineering
2008 — 2012
University of Rochester
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
2015 — 2019
Northeastern University
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012 — 2015
Skills
- Web Development
- C++
- Hadoop
- Matlab
- C#
- Python
- Git
- Pthreads
- Bash
- Mongodb
- Cuda
- Perl
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