Jiaying Liu () is a Chinese computer scientist whose research in computer vision includes highly-cited work on low-light enhancement, raindrop removal, and the recognition of human actions. She is an associate professor and Boya Young Fellow in the Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology of Peking University.
Education and career.
Liu graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an in 2005, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. She received a Ph.D. in 2010 through Peking University, with the dissertation "Rate Distortion Optimization Based Scalable Video Coding" supervised by Zongming Guo. Her doctoral studies also included a visit to the University of Southern California, working there with C.-C. Jay Kuo.
She remained at Peking University as an assistant professor beginning in 2010, and has been an associate professor since 2012.
Recognition.
Liu was named as a distinguished member of the China Computer Federation in 2022. She was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to intelligent visual compression and enhancement".