Shiwei Liu is a group leader at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent System and a PI at ELLIS Institute Tubingen. He was a Royal Society Newton International Fellow at the University of Oxford. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. with Cum Laude from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2022. Dr. Liu has received two Rising Star Awards from KAUST and the Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL). His Ph.D. thesis received the 2023 Best Dissertation Runner-up from Informatics Europe. He has a broad interests of life-cycle of large foundation models.