I am assistant professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Currently, I am most interested in the scientific and normative foundations of machine learning and algorithmic decision-making, with a focus on societal impact and welfare outcomes.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from University of California, Berkeley, in May 2022, advised by Moritz Hardt and Michael I. Jordan. In 2022-2023, I was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University Computer Science, working with Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy, and Solon Barocas in the Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice (AIPP) initiative.
I am the recepient of an Amazon Research Award, a Microsoft Ada Lovelace Fellowship, an Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship, an NUS Development Grant, and an ICML Best Paper Award.
Selected Publications
Lydia T. Liu, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy.
On the Actionability of Outcome Prediction.
Proceedings of the AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence, to appear (2024). [arxiv]
Research Summary featured by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute.
Lydia T. Liu*, Serena Wang*, Tolani Britton^, Rediet Abebe^.
Reimagining the Machine Learning Life Cycle to Improve Educational Outcomes of Students.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120.9 (2023): e2204781120. [arxiv]
Lydia T. Liu, Sarah Dean, Esther Rolf, Max Simchowitz, Moritz Hardt.
Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. [arxiv]
News (Summer 2024)
I am presenting work with my students and collaborators (Liu et al 2024, Raji and Liu 2024, Stroebl et al 2024) at the ICML 2024 Workshop on Humans, Algorithmic Decision-Making and Society: Modeling Interactions and Impact!
I will be an invited speaker at TTIC Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Processes: From Theory to Practice (August 26-28).
Email: ltliu_at_princeton_dot_edu