Xiaowei Liu is a Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb since May 2023, with extensive experience in the field of machine learning and natural language processing. Prior to this role, Xiaowei served as an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn from April 2018 to May 2023, where responsibilities included building NLP and computer vision algorithms for content understanding in search and recommender systems. Earlier positions at LinkedIn included Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, focusing on natural language understanding. Xiaowei's foundational experience includes a role as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University from August 2012 to March 2018, as well as an internship at LG Electronics, where work involved developing speech features and applications using deep neural networks. Xiaowei holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.