Dr. Liu’s research areas are in natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining, with special emphasis on automatic summarization and social media. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Liu was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, member of Noah's ARK. From 2011 to 2013, she worked as a senior research scientist at Bosch Research, Palo Alto, California, one of the largest German companies providing intelligent car systems and home appliances. Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2011. Prior to that, she obtained her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Liu has published over twenty peer reviewed articles, and she serves as a referee for leading journals and conferences.