Miao Liu (刘淼)

Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, College of AI

EX-Research Scientist at META GenAI

I'm an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, College of Artificial Intelligence.

I'm currently leading the MEOW (Modeling Egocentric Omni World) Lab, which is committed to the following research agenda: Designing human-centered AI that sees through your eyes, learns your skills, and understands your intentions -- 构建能“看你所见、学你所会、懂你所想”的下一代人本智能系统

Previously, I was a Research Scientist at META GenAI, primarily focusing on egocentric vision and generative AI models. I completed my Ph.D. in Robotics at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. James Rehg. I also work closely with Prof. Yin Li from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I was fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Siyu Tang and Prof. Michael Black during my visit to ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute. I enjoyed a wonderful internship at Facebook Reality Labs, where I worked with Dr. Chao Li, Dr. Lingni Ma, Dr. Kiran Somasundaram, and Prof. Kristen Grauman on egocentric action recognition and localization. I am honored to have received several awards, including Best Paper Candidate at CVPR 2022 and ECCV 2024, and the BMVC 2022 Best Student Paper Award. As a primary contributor, I have helped construct several widely recognized egocentric video datasets, including Ego4D, Ego-Exo4D, EGTEA Gaze+, and the Behavior Vision Suite. I have also desgined multiple models that will be deployed in the next-generation smart glasses developed by Meta Reality Labs. During my time at Meta GenAI, I was deeply involved in the training and evaluation of large-scale generative multimodal models, including EMU, Llama3, and Llama4 (multimodal components only).

*This background image of Jaime Lannister charging alone at Daenerys and her dragon reveals what it often takes to do science—you must be willing to stand as the lonely warrior.*

Our research is dedicated to Bridging Minds and Machines by leveraging human-centric perception to connect multimodal foundation models, embodied intelligence, and cognitive science, creating human-centered AI systems that understand people, adapt to individuals, and proactively assist in daily life. Our key research directions include:

  • Egocentric Vision: Understanding people through first-person perception of their actions, attention, and interactions with the world.
  • Embodied AI: Enabling robots to understand, learn from, and assist people in dynamic human-centered environments.
  • Personalized Multimodal Foundation Models: Building AI systems that remember user history, model individual preferences, and provide personalized assistance.
  • AI with Theory of Mind: Developing agents that reason about human intentions, beliefs, and cognitive states to anticipate user needs.
Research North Star

My group is always looking for talented students to join us on this journey.

News

  • May 2026: One paper accepted to ICML 2026.
  • Apr. 2026: One paper accepted to ACL 2026 main conference as oral presentation.
  • Feb. 2026: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026 (1 main + 1 findings).
  • Jan. 2026: One paper accepted to WACV 2026.
  • Jan. 2026: One paper accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • Sep. 2025: One paper accepted to NeurIPS DB Track 2025.
  • Aug. 2025: One paper accepted to EMNLP Findings 2025.
  • Aug. 2025: Officially left Meta and joined Tsinghua University, College of AI.
  • Jun. 2025: Received the Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) 2023/2024 Distinguished Paper Awards.
  • Feb. 2025: Three papers accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • Oct. 2024: Our LEGO paper has been nominated as one of the 15 award candidates at ECCV 2024.
  • Jul. 2024: Two corresponding-author papers accepted to ECCV 2024 (1 Poster, 1 Oral).
  • Jun. 2024: Received the Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) 2022/2023 Distinguished Paper Awards
  • Feb. 2024: Three papers accepted to CVPR 2024 (1 Poster, 1 Highlight, 1 Oral).
  • Nov. 2023: One paper accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
  • Nov. 2023: One paper accepted to IJCV.
  • Jun. 2023: One paper accepted to ACL 2023 as Findings.
  • Nov. 2022: Our paper on Egocentric Gaze Estimation won the Best Student Paper Prize at BMVC 2022!
  • Sep. 2022: One paper accepted to BMVC 2022 for spotlight presentation!
  • Aug. 2022: I started my new journey at META Reality Labs.

Selected Publications

See Full Publication List at my Google Scholar page.

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