Liya Ji is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Qifeng Chen. Liya Ji obtained a Ph.D degree from HKUST, supervised by Prof. Qifeng Chen and Prof. Qiang Yang. Liya Ji served as Manager, Machine Learning at Lenovo Group Limited from 2018 to 2021. Liya Ji obtained Master of Philosophy at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from HKUST in 2015 and received her Bachelor of Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012. Her research interests include generative models, low-level vision, and multi-modal LLMs.