Yinyin Liu

Yinyin Liu, VP of AI at Seismic, a sales enablement platform that became a unicorn in 2018.

Meet Yinyin Liu, the VP of AI at Seismic, a sales enablement platform that became a unicorn in 2018.

Seismic is the first enablement company listed in Forbes’ Cloud 100, and caters to high-profile clients such as HubSpot and Aerogen.

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After completing her master's in Aerospace Engineering in 2003, Liu got her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Ohio University.

𝐘𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐮:
→ joined Qualcomm as a research scientist in 2008, where she focused on robot control systems and computer vision
→ was hired as a principal data scientist at Nervana in 2015, an AI company building solutions for businesses
→ was appointed Head of Data Science at Intel Corporation in 2016 – after the tech company acquired Nervana for around $400 million.

At Intel, Liu worked on addressing online hate speech and a new AI technique called 'few-shot natural language generation' that can generate text even when limited data is available.

In 2019, she co-founded an AI startup called XOKind. The startup’s first product, Una Travel, was featured as a top travel app by The New York Times Apple, CNBC, and USA Today.

In 2023, Yinyin Liu was appointed VP of AI at Seismic – her role revolves around improving Seismic’s AI assistant, Aura Copilot.

The San Diego Business Journal recognized her as a Leader of Influence in Technology in 2024.

I admire Yinyin’s commitment to building easy-to-use AI products at XOKind, which is crucial for the smooth adoption of AI across industries.

Last Updated: May 2024