Biography

Prof. Ke Liu

Dr. Ke Liu

Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics
College of Engineering, Peking University

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Department Link: (Chinese) (English)

Contact:
E-mail: LIUKE@PKU.EDU.CN

Research Interests

Smart structures and soft machines:

soft robots
metamaterials
reconfigurable structures
computational mechanics
design optimization
solid mechanics
differential geometry
AI for design

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
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
2019 - 2021

Supervisor: Prof. Chiara Daraio

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

Honors and Awards

ASME Melville Medal 2022
Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards (Georgia Tech) 2020
7OSME Gabriella & Paul Rosenbaum Foundation Travel Award 2018
Best poster award at the 2nd International Workshop on Origami Engineering 2017