Dr. Karen Liu

Biography

C. Karen Liu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, focusing on areas including computer graphics, robotics, physics-based animation, character animation, optimal control, reinforcement learning, and computational biomechanics. Before joining Stanford, Liu was a faculty member at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Liu has developed computational approaches for modeling realistic natural human movements and learning complex control policies for humanoids and assistive robots, along with advancing numerical simulation and optimal control algorithms. Her work fosters interdisciplinary collaboration across the fields of robotics, computer graphics, mechanical engineering, biomechanics, neuroscience, and biology. Liu has received several honors including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was named a Young Innovator by MIT Technology Review in 2007. In 2012, she was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award for her contributions to computer graphics.

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