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Han Liu

Modern Artificial General Intelligible And Computer Systems (MAGICS) Deep Reinforcement Learning Statistical Machine Learning On Edge And Cloud Systems Analytical Methods For Distributed AI Systems
Northwestern University. Computer Science

About

Han Liu directs the MAGICS (Modern Artificial General Intelligible and Computer Systems) lab at the Northwestern University. 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 lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and computer systems, which deploys statistical machine learning methods on edges and clouds to achieve analytical advantages. Han Liu has received numerous research awards including 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 is now serving as associate editors for the Journal of American Statistical Association, the Electronic Journal of Statistics, the Technometrics, and the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Research Performance Summary

378
Total Papers
25150
Total Citations
69
H-Index
2004-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

On efficient and effective association rule mining from XML data

Year: 2004

Citations: 16

Venue: International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

Latest Recorded Paper

Universal Approximation with Softmax Attention

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2504.15956

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
35
2024
45
2023
16
2022
11
2021
12
2020
8
2019
19
2018
34
2017
20
2016
31
2015
27

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 47
Journal 53
Book 8

Top Coauthors

Liu Wang Zhang

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 35
Citations 270
Avg. Citations / Paper 7.7
H-Index 8

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 92
Citations 3808
Avg. Citations / Paper 41.4
H-Index 25

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 131
Citations 8576
Avg. Citations / Paper 65.5
H-Index 49

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 88
Citations 9882
Avg. Citations / Paper 112.3
H-Index 39

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 23
Citations 2567
Avg. Citations / Paper 111.6
H-Index 11

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 9
Citations 47
Avg. Citations / Paper 5.2
H-Index 4

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

hanliu@northwestern.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Precision Matrix Estimation Modern Hopfield Models Principal Component Analysis Dimensional Undirected Graph Undirected Graph Estimation Adaptive Batch Size Tandem Mass Spectrometry Mass Spectrometry Data Sparse Principal Component Langevin Monte Carlo