Ying Liu

Dr. Ying Liu is currently Professor and Chair in Intelligent Manufacturing (from 1st Aug 2021) and the Group Leader for High-value Manufacturing with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering in Cardiff University, UK.

Before that, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (2010-2013) and with the Department of Industrial Systems and Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2006-2010). He obtained his Bachelors (1998) and Masters (2001) both from Mechanical Engineering at Chongqing University, China, and Ph.D. (2006) from the Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST) program under the Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA) at the National University of Singapore.

His research interests focus primarily on engineering informatics, digital and intelligent (smart) manufacturing, AI and machine learning for engineering, design methodology and process and advanced ICT in engineering design and manufacturing, in which areas he has published over 160 scholarly articles, one edited book and more than 12 journal special issues. Given his career trajectory, Dr Liu’s research is supported by GRF Hong Kong, MOE Singapore, A*STAR Singapore, EPSRC UK, NSF China and the industry.

He serves as Associate Editors with ASME JCISE, IEEE T-ASE, the Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering (Taylor & Francis), CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (Springer) and Autonomous Intelligent Systems (Springer), and is on the Editorial Board of Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier) and Scientific Reports (Springer Nature).

Areas of expertise

• Design
• Engineering design
• Informatics
• Advanced manufacturing
• Artificial intelligence

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) National University of Singapore (2002 — 2006)
• Master of Science (MSc) Nanyang Technological University (2001 — 2002)
• Master's degree Chongqing University (1998 — 2001)
• Bachelor's degree Chongqing University (1994 — 1998)