Michael Liu
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About

I am a computer scientist, recently having completed a M.Sc in the field with a focus on machine learning and differential privacy. While most of my work has been in large language models and diffusion models, I have a general interest in many different areas. For example, I have worked in firmware, games, and frontend development. The latter example is why I chose to create this website using React rather than from a template. I enjoy thinking about problems from low-level perspectives, working out tricky problems, and of course, writing code.

Education

Master's Thesis: On the Efficiency and Privacy of Foundation Models

Supervisors: Dr. Nick HarveyDr. Renjie LiaoDr. Mijung Park

Highlighted Courses:

  • CPSC 532D — Statistical Learning Theory
  • EECE 571F — Deep Learning with Structures
  • CPSC 532P — Introduction to Differential Privacy
  • MATH 544 — Probability I

Highlighted Courses:

  • CPSC 421 — Introduction to Theory of Computing
  • CPSC 436R — Randomized Algorithms
  • CPSC 425 — Computer Vision
  • CPSC 440 — Advanced Machine Learning
  • CPSC 340 — Machine Learning and Data Mining