Her research interests lie in the design and verification of human-centered intelligent systems with applications to manufacturing and transportation and on various robot embodiments, including robot arms, mobile robots, legged robots, and humanoid robots. Dr. Liu co-founded Instinct Robotics, a robotics company for intelligent manufacturing. Dr. Liu holds senior membership in IEEE, and membership in ASME and AAAI. She published the book “Designing robot behavior in human-robot interactions” with CRC Press in 2019. She is the co-founder of the International Neural Network Verification Competition launched in 2020. Her work has been recognized by NSF Career Award, Amazon Research Award, Ford URP Award, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Champion Award, Young Investigator Award at International Symposium of Flexible Automation, IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation, and many best/outstanding paper awards. Her research has been covered by IEEE Spectrum, ATI News, Robtiq Blog, etc, and received support from many government agencies and industrial partners, including NSF, NIST, DARPA, ARM Institute, Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, etc. She demonstrated their human-robot collaboration system for flexible manufacturing to the US President in 2022. She was a member of the academic council for Grit Venture from 2021 to 2023. She served as the associate editor of Mechatronics from 2023 to 2024 and she is currently the assiciate editor of ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.