Sheng Liu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in flight vehicle design from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA. In 1995, he joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing Research (joint appointment), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, as an Assistant Professor, where he became a Tenured Associate Professor in 1998. In 2006, he joined the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, as a Full Professor, where he was the Director of the Institute of Microsystems. He was the Director of the Division of Micro-Opto-Electromechanical Systems, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan. He is currently the Dean of the School of Power and Mechanical Engineering at Wuhan University, Wuhan. He was evaluated to be an ASME Fellow in 2009. He was a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in 1995 and the ASME Young Engineer Award in 2006. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.