Presenter

Ming-Yu Liu is a vice president of research at NVIDIA and a fellow of IEEE. He leads the Deep Imagination Research group at NVIDIA, which currently focuses on Generative AI for Physical AI. His research team has helped create several new product categories for NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Cosmos, a developer-first world foundation model platform for Physical AI; NVIDIA Edify, a family of Generative AI models that powers Getty Images and Shutterstock’s GenAI services; NVIDIA Canvas [GauGAN], a real-time painting tool that uses GANs to turn simple brushstrokes into photorealistic images; and NVIDIA Maxine [LivePortrait], an AI-first cloud-native video streaming platform. His research group publishes scientific papers in top-tier AI conferences regularly, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH. Several of their papers have received prestigious awards.