Ke Liu Ph.D., Assistant Professor Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, College of Engineering Google Scholar ResearchID Department Link (Chinese) (English)

Research Interests

Smart structures and soft machines:

• soft robots

• metamaterials

• reconfigurable structures

• computational mechanics

• design optimization

• solid mechanics

• differential geometry

• AI for design

Contact

E-mail:LIUKE@PKU.EDU.CN

Education

• Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (2014-2019)  

  Advisor: Prof. Glaucio H. Paulino

• Visiting Research Student, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2016-2017)  

  Supervisor: Prof. Tomohiro Tachi

• M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (2012-2014)

  Advisor: Prof. Glaucio H. Paulino, Prof. Paolo Gardoni

• B.Eng., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2009-2013)

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics,

  College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China (2022-Present)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Supervisor: Prof. Chiara Daraio

  California Institute of Technology, Pasadna, CA, USA (2019-2021)

Honors and Awards

• 2022, ASME Melville Medal

• 2020, Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards (Georgia Tech)

• 2018, 7OSME Gabriella & Paul Rosenbaum Foundation Travel Award

• 2017, Best poster award at the 2nd International Workshop on Origami Engineering