Guoqing Liu is a Senior Researcher at
Microsoft Research AI for Science based in Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on Reinforcement Learning (RL), Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI Co-Scientists. He works on post-training LLMs and developing autonomous scientific agents to accelerate chemistry and drug discovery, with representative works including
QFANG,
NatureLM,
PDVN, and
the TDPO series.
Previously, he was a Senior Researcher and a joint PhD student at
Microsoft Research Asia, where his work centered on reinforcement learning, particularly state abstraction and representation, policy gradient methods, and sample efficiency. Representative projects from this period include
Suphx: The World's Best Mahjong AI and
Inspector: Automated Game Testing with Xbox Studios.
He completed his Ph.D. from the
University of Science and Technology of China through a joint program with
Microsoft Research Asia (2016-2021), under the supervision of
Tie-Yan Liu and
Nenghai Yu.
