Wei Liu

Associate Professor Wei Liu is a full-time academic in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA), leading the UWA Centre for Natural and Technical Language Processing. Her research focuses on knowledge discovery from natural language text, generative AI, semantic technologies, deep learning for knowledge graphs, and sequential data mining. She holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle (2003) and an MEng from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China).

Research Interests:

• Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM)
• Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction
• Human-AI Collaboration Systems
• Clinical Data Analysis (Ophthalmology)
• Technical Language Processing for Maintenance Data
• Neural-Symbolic Computation

Recent Work Trends: Her publications emphasize multimodal systems integration, knowledge graph refinement, and adversarial AI applications. Notable 2025 work includes Docs2KG (human-LLM collaboration), Auto-Regressive Diffusion for 3D interactions, and spherical embeddings for logical queries.

Scientific Awards:

• First Prize in IEEE ICDM/ICBK Knowledge Graph Contest (2020)
• Best Contribution to Science Award at DICTA 2020
• 2022 Students Choice Award for academic support

Advising & Grants: Leads 25 active grants including ARC Training Centres in Critical Resources and Maintenance Data Science. Collaborates with industry partners like Aspire Digital Group and Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia.

Labs/Teams: Directs UWA's Natural and Technical Language Processing Centre, focusing on projects like maintenance work order analysis, geological survey data fusion, and clinical data integration in ophthalmology.