Foundation models · Commerce intelligence
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
Yang Liu 刘阳
Yang Liu is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Shopify’s Foundation Model team, where he works on generative search and recommendation, large-scale representation learning, and embeddings.
Before Shopify, he built machine learning systems at Magic Leap and at Sportlogiq prior to its acquisition. His work turns foundation-model research into reliable products operating at commerce scale.
Professional activities
Research interests & publications
Organized by research area
Generative retrieval, sequential recommenders, and embeddings at scale.
- 2026The generative recommender behind Shopify’s commerce engine
Yang Liu
Shopify Engineering Engineering article
- 2025Leveraging multimodal LLMs for Shopify’s global catalogue
Audrey-Anne Guindon, Jonathan Ohayon, Ali Khanafer, Yang Liu
Shopify Engineering · ICLR 2025 recap Engineering article
Visual recognition, video understanding, and efficient representations.
- 2023A scale-invariant trajectory simplification method for efficient data collection in videos
Yang Liu, Luiz Gustavo Hafemann
CVPR Workshops Conference
- 2022System and Method for Identity Preservative Representation of Persons and Objects Using Spatial and Appearance Attributes
Mehrsan Javan Roshtkhari, Md Amran Hossen Bhuiyan, Yang Liu, Parthipan Siva, Eric Georges Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
US Patent App. 17/809,175 Patent
- 2021Detecting and matching related objects with one proposal multiple predictions
Yang Liu, Luiz G. Hafemann, Michael Jamieson, Mehrsan Javan
CVPR Workshops Conference
- 2020Pose Guided Gated Fusion for Person Re-identification
Amran Bhuiyan, Yang Liu, Parthipan Siva, Mehrsan Javan, Ismail Ben Ayed, Eric Granger
IEEE WACV Conference
- 2014The Design of a Micro-Parts Tracking System Micro-Vision-Based
Ye Lan Wu, Fei Yang, Zhi Jing Zhang, Yang Liu, Tao Xie
Applied Mechanics and Materials 614 Conference
Multimodal learning, immersive systems, and human–computer interaction.
- 2025Leveraging LLMs to Create a Haptic Devices’ Recommendation System
Yang Liu, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
arXiv:2501.12573 Preprint
- 2025Empirical Studies of Large-Scale Environment Scanning by Consumer Electronics
Mengyuan Wang, Yang Liu, Haopeng Wang, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 15 (2) Journal
- 2025MetaDecorator: Generating Immersive Virtual Tours through Multimodality
Shuang Xie, Yang Liu, Jeannie S.A. Lee, Haiwei Dong
arXiv:2501.16164 Preprint
- 2024Bringing robots home: The rise of AI robots in consumer electronics
Haiwei Dong, Yang Liu, Ted Chu, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 14 (1) Journal
- 2022Metaverse meets consumer electronics
Haiwei Dong, Yang Liu
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 12 (3) Journal
- 2019EVM-CNN: Real-time contactless heart rate estimation from facial video
Ying Qiu, Yang Liu, Juan Arteaga-Falconi, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 21 (7) Journal
- 2018Systems and methods for establishing telepresence of a remote user
Imants Dan Jumis, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Haiwei Dong, Yang Liu
US Patent App. 15/995,483 Patent
- 2018Technical evaluation of HoloLens for multimedia: A first look
Yang Liu, Haiwei Dong, Longyu Zhang, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
IEEE MultiMedia 25 (4) Journal
- 2017Human head stiffness rendering
Minggao Wei, Yang Liu, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 66 (8) Journal
- 2017Intelligent Stereo Video Monitoring System for Paramedic Helmet
Yang Liu
University of Ottawa Thesis
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