Shilong Liu

Note: Shilong Liu will officially join the Electrical Engineering Department in July 2027.

Shilong Liu is a Peretsman Scully Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Princeton AI Lab, working with Prof. Mengdi Wang. He will join Columbia University’s Department of Electrical Engineering as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2027. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, advised by Profs. Lei Zhang, Hang Su, and Jun Zhu, and his B.Eng. from Tsinghua University in 2020. He has also worked and interned at ByteDance Seed, NVIDIA Research, Microsoft Research, and IDEA Research.

His research focuses on computer vision, self-evolving agents, and world models for embodied AI. He is the first author of Grounding DINO, one of the most widely used open-world object detection models. His research has received over 18,000 Google Scholar citations, and the open-source projects he has contributed to have collectively earned over 30,000 GitHub stars. Grounding DINO’s official models receive over two million downloads per month on Hugging Face. His honors include the WAIC Yunfan Award – Rising Star (2024), KAUST AI Rising Star (2024), and CCF-CV Academic Emerging Scholar Award (2023).