Bei Liu

My research focuses on Multimodal AI, Document Understanding, and AI Agents. I also serve as a Guest Associate Professor at Nagoya University in Japan. Before joining Microsoft, I earned my Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Kyoto University, Japan, under the guidance of Professors Katsumi Tanaka, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, and Makoto P. Kato. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University, China.

My current interest is in enabling agents that actively read, navigate, and reason over complex documents, combining perception, planning, and tool use.

I am open to research collaboration, academic visits, and supervising interns working on multimodal agents. Feel free to reach out!