I'm Quan Liu.

I'm an LLM and agent researcher, and an engineer at heart. I like turning open research questions into systems that actually run — and I care as much about whether something holds up in production as whether it works in a paper.

Today I'm at Accenture's Center for Advanced AI, where, as a founding member of our agentic systems team, I lead a team building a coding agent and an automated agent-generation pipeline, and contribute core features to AIRefinery. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vanderbilt, working across medical imaging, computational vision, and machine learning.

My research spans LLM agents, tool use, retrieval, and post-training alignment, with recent work at ICLR and NeurIPS. Off the clock, I'm happiest on a basketball court or somewhere along the California coast.