Dr. Liu receives his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University, and M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University. After graduation, Dr. Liu worked as a senior engineer for a year in the Mechanical Research and Development Center at Seagate Technology. Dr. Liu has received several awards including: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, NSF Summer Institute on Nanoscale Mechanics, Bio-inspired Hierarchical Structures Fellowship, and Royal E. Cabell Fellowship. His research interests include: fluid-structure interaction at the micro/nano scale and in biological systems, parallel computing, cardiovascular fluid dynamics, bionano interfacial phenomena, nanomedicine, and biosensing.