Emily Liu

Dr. Liu is a Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and Department Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Dr. Liu earned PhD from MIT and B.S. from Peking University. She received 2018-2019 ELATE at Drexel Fellowship (serves as advisor for ELATES fellows since 2021), and in 2017 was awarded an Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is also the recipient of many teaching and research awards from the School of Engineering at Rensselaer, as well as the Cozzarelli Prize in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.