She moved to Tsinghua University for her graduate studies, earning a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)
Liu was a graduate student at Cornell University, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1996.
[2][4] As a postdoctoral researcher, Liu worked on language processing at Cornell University.
[4] Liu leads the Design and Analysis Research Laboratory at Stony Brook University.
[1][5] She is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,[6] which specified, supports, and maintains the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.