Yang Liu

Yang Liu will join the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2026. He received his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where he was advised by Frédo Durand, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech working with Katie Bouman. His research centers on computational imaging, physical AI, and generative foundation models, with a long-term goal of building intelligent systems that extend beyond human visual perception. His work explores algorithmic frameworks grounded in physical imaging processes, including plug-and-play priors, diffusion-based generative models, neural field representations, and multidimensional sensing. He is also interested in responsible AI sensing, biomedical imaging, and imaging-driven scientific discovery, as well as multi-agent AI systems that combine physical reasoning with vision and language models to achieve expert-level or superhuman performance.