Chang Liu （刘昶）
Prof. Chang Liu works in the Sensors and MEMS research area with 30 years of experiences in both research and commercialization. He won the NSF Career Award in 1997, and was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2010. He also specializes in education of technology entrepreneurship. He has published a textbook with Pearson "Foundations of MEMS" and two texts with Tsinghua University Press on entrepreneurship and lab-market technology transfer.
His IEEE Fellow was based on the citation "for contributions to bioinspired and polymer micro electro-mechanical systems".
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bioinspired Sensors and Neuromorphic Sensing
Nature offers the best sensors in the world. I want to study them. One Approach is to build biomimetic systems.
1986-1990
Tsinghua University, China
Undergraduate studies in the Department of Precision Engineering and Mechatronics
MEMS
Microelectromechanical Systems
Technology Commercialization, Entrepreneurship
All engineers should learn some business. I am interested in teaching engineers business, and entrepreneurship. For that purpose, I wrote two books, left academia (perhaps temporarily) and formed a company to explore.
Home Smart and Safety
SENSIC Corporation is dedicated to building sensor systems and for enhancing smartness and safety of home.
1990-1996
California Institute of Technology
Graduate work in the Electrical Engineering division. Thesis title "Investigation of micro machined sensors and actuators for fluid mechanics applications". Advisor: Dr. YC Tai.
1996-2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant and then Associate Professor (with tenure) in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE).
2007-2015
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Full professor with tenure in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.