Professor Ang Liu is Professor of Engineering Design in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2012. His research spans engineering design, intelligent manufacturing, digital twins, artificial intelligence, and engineering education, with a particular interest in data- and AI-driven approaches to design and manufacturing.

Professor Liu is a Fellow of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), and Engineers Australia (FIEAust), as well as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He has also been awarded fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the PLuS Alliance. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the CIRP Scientific Technical Committee on Design (2025–2028). His international leadership roles have included Co-Chair of ICAD 2016, General Chair of ICAD 2019, Chair of the 2nd Digital Twin International Conference (2022), and Chair of the 33rd CIRP Design Conference (2023).

His recognitions include the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2021), a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the Australian Awards for University Teaching (2022), the Digital Twin Young Scientist Award (2024), and multiple best paper awards. He has also been recognised among The Australian’s Top 250 Researchers from 2021 to 2026. Professor Liu is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals.