Liu is a Ph.D. student in Constructed Environment at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on the integration of physical and digital simulations, data-driven design methods, and generative design methods in landscape architecture. She received an M.L.A. degree with Jacob Weidenmann Prize and Irving Innovation Fellowship from Harvard GSD, and a B.Arch. from Tongji University. She has worked as Research Associate in the Office for Urbanization at Harvard GSD, as a Landscape Designer at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, as a Fabrication Researcher at Autodesk BUILD Space, and as a Computational Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning.