Zicheng Liu is currently a senior director of GenAI at AMD, leading a GenAI team for large foundation model training. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1996, a M.S. from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989, and a B.S. from Huazhong Normal University in 1984.

Prior to joining AMD, he was a partner research manager at Microsoft and his team developed world-class computer vision and vision-language models which have been deployed in Azure AI Services. He led a team that developed Azure Kinect Body Tracking SDK for RGB-D based 3D skeletal tracking which is a popular tool used by games and robotics developers and researchers. Before joining Microsoft Research in 1997, he worked at Silicon Graphics where he developed a trimmed NURBS tessellator shipped in both OpenGL and OpenGL Optimizer.

Zicheng Liu co-authored three books: “Face Geometry and Appearance Modeling: concept and applications”, Cambridge University Press, “Human Action Recognition with Depth Cameras”, Springer Briefs, and “Human Action Analysis with Randomized Trees”, Springer Briefs. He has served as area chairs and OC members for many international conferences. He was a technical co-chair of 2010 and 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo and a general co-chair of 2012 and 2022 IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing. He was a co-chair of IEEE CVPR Workshop on Human Activity Understanding from 3D (HAU3D) from 2011-2013. He served as the chair of Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE CAS society and a steering committee member of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation from 2015-2024. He is an affiliate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. He was an IEEE distinguished lecturer from 2015-2016. He won APSIPA Industrial Distinguished Leader award. He is a fellow of IEEE.