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Professor Mark H. Liu is an associate professor of finance with tenure and the author of five books: Build a Text-to-Image Generator from Scratch (Manning Publications, 2025); Learn Generative AI with PyTorch (Manning Publications, 2024); AlphaGo Simplified (CRC Press, 2024); Machine Learning; Animated (CRC Press, 2023); Make Python Talk (No Starch Press, 2021). Liu was the founding director of the Master of Science in Finance program at the University of Kentucky. His research interests are machine learning and corporate finance (IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financial analysts, dividend policy). He obtained his Ph.D. in finance from Boston College. Liu has published his research in top finance journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
