Yiliang Liu

Yiliang Liu has a diverse work experience in the field of research and applications science. Yiliang started their career at Nanometrics in 2010 as an Applications Scientist and later advanced to the role of Senior Applications Scientist. Yiliang worked in this position until August 2013. Yiliang then moved on to become a Staff Research Scientist at Nanometrics from January 2017 until November 2019. After that, Yiliang joined Onto Innovation in November 2019 as a Sr. Staff Research Scientist and was later promoted to the position of Principal Research Scientist in March 2022. Currently, they are still employed in this role.

Yiliang Liu has an extensive education history in various fields. Yiliang pursued a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University from 1999 to 2003. Alongside their major, they also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Information and Computing Science from the same university, studying from 2000 to 2003.

Following their Bachelor's degrees, Yiliang pursued higher education and completed a Master's degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2003 to 2006. Their research focused on the photocatalytic properties of inorganic semiconductors.

Yiliang then proceeded to the National University of Singapore, where they earned a PhD in Organic and Polymer Electronics, covering the period from 2006 to 2010.

In addition to their formal education, Yiliang has obtained certifications in various areas of machine learning and deep learning. These include Convolutional Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning Specialization, Sequence Models, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, and Structuring Machine Learning Projects. These certifications were obtained from Coursera and deeplearning.ai between November and December 2019.

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