Yang Liu received the B. Eng. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1998, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Regina, Regina, Canada, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Texas at Austin, TX, in Summer 2010. He joined the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) at the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 2002. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, learning color perception under Prof. Bevil Conway, in Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. His research interests include 2D/3-D natural scene statistics, computational aspects of biological stereo vision, and visual neuroscience for color perception.