MAGICS Lab

Principle Investigator

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Han Liu

Orrington Lunt Professor of Computer Science, Statistics and Data Science

Department of Computer Science

Department of Statistics

Mudd Hall 3119

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois 60201

hanliu@northwestern.edu
Han Liu directs the MAGICS (Modern Artificial General Intelligible and Computer Systems) Lab at the Northwestern University. He is chairing the Graduate Program Enhancement Committee (GPEC) at Northwestern Computer Science. He has been the director of the deep reinforcement learning center at Tencent AI Lab and had been a professor at the Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. He received a joint PhD in Machine Learning and Statistics from the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon University, advised by John Lafferty and Larry Wasserman. His research integrates modern artificial intelligence and computer systems, which exploits large foundation models and probabilistic graphical models to revolutionize science, engineering and business. Han Liu has received numerous research awards including the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the Alfred P Sloan Fellowship in Mathematics, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, the ASA Noether Young Scholar Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Howard B Wentz Award and the Umesh Gavaskar Memorial Best Dissertation Award. He has been associate editors for the Journal of American Statistical Association, the Electronic Journal of Statistics, the Technometrics, and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has also been seriving as area chairs for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR conferences.

Honors

2023 - Orrington Lunt Professorship at Northwestern University

2019 - Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

2017 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Math

2017 - Princeton SEAS E-Council Teaching Award

2016 - Best Paper Prize on the 5th ICCOPT Conf

2016 - Plenary Speaker in 2016 INFORMS OPT Conf

2016 - Princeton SEAS E-Council Teaching Award

2015 - IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award

2015 - ASA Noether Young Scholar Award

2015 - NSF CAREER Award in Statistics Science

2015 - Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award

2013 - Notable Paper Award in the 16th AISTATS

2013 - Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship

2012 - Teaching Excellence Award from Johns Hopkins Univ

2012 - ASA David P. Byar Young Investigator Travel Award

2011 - ADHD-200 Global Competition Championship

2011 - Umesh Gavasakar Memorial Best Dissertation Award

2010 - J. Tinsley Oden Faculty Fellowship from UT-Asutin

2010 - ASA Best Student Paper Award in Stats Computing

2009 - ICML Best Overall Paper Award Honorable Mention

2009 - ICML Best Student Paper Award

2009 - Winner of the ICML Best Student Paper Award

2009 - AISTATS Best Paper Award Nomination

2009 - Google PHD Fellowship in Statistics

Former Students

Mattson Thieme

Research Scientist,

AbbVie Research

Tim Tsz-Kit Lau

Postdoc Researcher,

University of Chicago

Yuan Cao

Assistant Professor,

Hong Kong University

Heather Battey

Associate Professor,

Imperial College London

Krishna Balasubramanian

Associate Professor,

UC Davis

Carson Eisenach

Senior Applied Scientist,

Amazon

Ethan Xingyuan Fang

Associate Professor,

Duke University

Quanquan Gu

Associate Professor,

UCLA

Fang Han

Associate Professor,

University of Washington

Junwei Lu

Associate Professor,

Harvard University

Matey Neykov

Assistant Professor,

Northwestern University

Yang Ning

Associate Professor,

Cornell University

Qiang Sun

Associate Professor,

University of Toronto

Keanming Tan

Assistant Professor,

University of Michigan

Zhaoran Wang

Associate Professor,

Northwestern University

Tianqi Zhao

Senior Software Engineer,

Uber

Tuo Zhao

Associate Professor,

Georgia Institute of Technology

Wenxin Zhou

Associate Professor,

University of Illinois at Chicago

MAGICS Lab

Contact

Department of Computer Science

Mudd Hall 3119

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60201

magics@cs.northwestern.edu