Before joining ISE, he was a Research Associate and spent two years in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to his research experience at USC, Dr. Liu worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University during 2013 - 2015. Dr. Liu received a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2013, and a Bachelor degree from the Department of Automatic Control at Beijing Institute of Technology in 2007.