Liang Ding (丁亮)

AI Researcher & Builder


E-mail: liangding.liam@gmail.com
Twitter: @liangdingNLP
GitHub: @alphadl
Scholar: Google Scholar Profile
WeChat: Liam_DL1469


Biography

I am currently at Alibaba Group, building a scalable agentic AI ecosystem to maximize rewards in both business and social value. Prior to this, I was the Chief Scientist at a generative AI research and product startup (raised $50M+), where I led the R&D of foundation models and launched AI-native products like Music Generator and Agentic Design Engine. Previously, I was a Research Scientist and led the NLP research group [photo] at JD Explore Academy, where I was a member of the Doctoral Management Trainee (DMT) program (a top-tier talent program in JD.com, Inc.). I received my Ph.D. from The University of Sydney, supervised by Prof. Dacheng Tao (IEEE/ACM Fellow).

I have published over 100 papers in top-tier AI/NLP venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, TPAMI), with a recent focus on large language models (training, alignment, evaluations, multilinguality, multimodality) and their agentic applications in the real world. My work has been recognized with several honors, including the WAIC SAIL Award (highest honor at World AI Conference), the JD Technology Golden Award (highest tech award at JD.com Inc.), and an ACL Best Paper Nomination. I also led the development of models that secured 1st place in world-renowned challenges, including SuperGLUE (surpassing human performance), GLUE, WMT (2019-2022), and IWSLT 2021.

I am an IEEE Senior Member (elevated in 2025). I actively serve the community as an Area Chair for major AI/NLP conferences, including NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. I was also recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer for ACM TWEB and an Outstanding Reviewer for KDD 2025. I served as a researcher at SIAS, Zhejiang University.

I am always open to collaborations!

📣 NEWS: I have several full-time and intern positions on frontier topics, e.g., RLHF, adaptive rubric reward modeling, long-horizon memory, and lifelong learning for Agentic AI. Please reach out if you're interested in joining.

📣 I have several internship positions. Self-motivated students with experience in NLP and LLM are welcome.

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*Last updated on 01/2026.