Yinyin Liu

Yinyin Liu, PhD, is an artificial intelligence (AI) technologist and entrepreneur with experience building AI products for consumers, enterprises, and open-source AI communities. Currently, she is Vice President of AI at Seismic, focusing on infusing AI into transformative enablement solutions for enterprises.

Prior to Seismic, Yinyin co-founded and served as the Chief Technology Officer of XOKind, a seed-stage, venture-backed AI startup. Prior to founding XOKind, Yinyin was the Head of Data Science at Intel AI, where she established and led a global team of data scientists and AI researchers. Her team worked on workload optimization for AI software and hardware, research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), and building open- source tools in NLP/RL/Model compression. Yinyin also led data science engagements with cloud service providers and enterprises in finance, retail, energy and biotechnology. She drove Intel’s participation in Partnership on AI to tackle issues in FTA (fair, transparent, and accountable) AI and AI for Social Good. Before that, Yinyin was a Principal Data Scientist at Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel in 2016), and a machine learning researcher at Qualcomm working on Deep Learning, Robotics and Neuromorphic computing.

Yinyin’s work has been published in top academic conferences such as ICML, ACL, and EMNLP, and has been featured in VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review, and Forbes. She has also been a speaker at the O’Reilly AI Conferences, ICML, GIMS, Girl Geek, Women of Data Science, and WomenOfAI.org summit.