Ming-Yu Liu is a vice president of research at NVIDIA and an IEEE Fellow. He leads the Deep Imagination Research group, which focuses on deep generative models for content creation and foundation models for physical AI. He previously held research leadership roles at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America and National Tsing Hua University, and he earned degrees from National Taiwan University, National Chiao Tung University, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.