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Manli Shu

Visionary · DISC type Ds
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 Palo Alto, California, United States

Manli Shu is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind focusing on multimodal LLMs, AI safety, and trustworthiness. A Ph. D. graduate from the University of Maryland, she has interned at NVIDIA and Google and was a researcher at Salesforce, contributing to projects like BLIP-3 and presenting extensively at major AI conferences.

Manli is deeply engaged with the AI research community, frequently presenting her work at top conferences like NeurIPS. She is passionate about discussing complex topics in her field, from vision-language models to the broader challenges and opportunities within a Ph. D. program, and is open to new collaborations.

Her research includes developing novel ways to understand model vulnerabilities, such as creating stealthy data poisoning attacks on vision-language models.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Research Scientist
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Manli shows up

Objective Evaluator
Big Vision Person
Direct & Assertive

They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together. They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them.

Priorities

Topics Manli cares about

Multimodal LLMs
Her core focus at Google DeepMind is on Gemini's multimodal understanding, and she previously led post-training efforts for Salesforce's BLIP-3 vision-language model.
AI/ML Trustworthiness
A primary theme of her Ph. D. research and ongoing work, focusing on AI safety in both vision and language modalities to create more reliable models.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
1-2024 - 6-2025
Applied Scientist, AI Research
Salesforce
6-2023 - 11-2023
Research Intern
Google
6-2022 - 11-2022
Research Intern
Salesforce
1-2022 - 5-2022
Research Intern
NVIDIA
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Education
2019 - 2023
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of Maryland
2015 - 2019
Bachelor's degree
University of Science and Technology of China
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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