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Yan Liu is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He joined USC in August 2010. Before that, he worked as a research staff member in the Data Analytics Group at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center starting in November 2006. Dr. Liu obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and he also earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Peking University. His research interests focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence with applications in healthcare and sustainability, including climate science and traffic analysis. He explores several specific topics, including novel machine learning models for time series analysis, explainable machine learning models, and efficient algorithms for sampling optimization.
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