Tianxiang (Ivan) Liu

Engineering Leader | AI Specialist | Founder

Latest Blog Posts

• Unlocking Success in Machine Learning Interviews: Beyond Technical Skills
• What I learned from being An AI Startup Co-Founder and CTO
• Real-time Mobile Video Object Detection using Tensorflow
• Industrializing AI & Machine Learning Applications with Kubeflow
• In-App Mapbox Navigation in React Native

Recent Activity

1. 💪 Opened PR #2 in ivanliu1989/Predict-click-through-rates-on-display-ads
2. 💪 Opened PR #2 in ivanliu1989/AVAZU-CTR-Prediction

About Me

I am a results-oriented engineering leader with a passion for building and scaling innovative solutions in the AI space. Currently at Atlassian and based in Sydney, Australia, I specialize in agentic AI and have a strong background in data science, machine learning, and big data technologies. I am a frequent speaker, mentor, and a multi-award winner in datathon competitions.

🚀 My Pinned Projects

• AVAZU-CTR-Prediction: A system for predicting click-through rates (CTR) in online advertising, a critical metric for ad performance.
• Predict-click-through-rates-on-display-ads: A research project on display advertising using machine learning, tackling a billion-dollar industry challenge.
• SwiftKey-Natural-language: A capstone project focused on predictive text for mobile devices in partnership with SwiftKey.
• Real-time-Mobile-Video-Object-Detection: Exploring real-time object detection on mobile platforms.
• Driver-Telematics-Analysis: Analyzing driver telematics data to identify patterns and insights.
• Mapbox-Navigation-React-Native: An implementation of Mapbox navigation within a React Native application.

📚 Publications

• The Data Science Workshop (Packt, Jan 2020)
• The Python Workshop (Packt, Aug 2019)

🏆 Awards & Honors

• 1st & 2nd Prizes at Melbourne Datathon (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Guest Speaker at Podcasts, Google Cloud Next, RMIT University, and more.
• Mentor & Industry Supervisor at RMIT University.
• Top 1% Data Scientist on Kaggle.

💼 Professional Experience incl. Ventures

• Nearmap | Snr Director of ML Ops, Infrastructure and Engineering
• Atanexus | Founder
• Atlassian | Snr Engineering Manager of AIML Platform
• Rokt | Director of Engineering of ML and MLOps
• Trendii | Co-founder & CTO

🌐 Community & Volunteering

• Global Panel Member - MIT Technology Review
• Member - Toastmasters International