Yanxi Liu
Yanxi Liu received her B.S. degree in physics/electrical engineering in Beijing and her Ph.D. degree in computer science for group theory applications in robotics from University of Massachusetts. Her postdoctoral training was performed at LIFIA/IMAG, Grenoble, France. She also spent one year at DIMACS (NSF center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science) with an NSF research-education fellowship award. Dr. Liu joins the Computer Science Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments of Penn State University Fall of 2006. Dr. Liu has been a faculty member in the Robotics Institute (RI) of Carnegie Mellon University and affiliated with the Machine Learning department of CMU. She is an adjunct associate professor in the Radiology Department of University of Pittsburgh, and a guest professor of Computer Science Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Dr. Liu's research interests span a wide range of applications in computer vision, computer graphics, robotics and computer aided diagnosis in medicine, with two central themes: computational symmetry and discriminative subspace learning. With her colleagues, Dr. Liu won the first place in the clinical science category and the best paper overall at the Annual Conference of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons for the paper "Measurement of Asymmetry in Persons with Facial Paralysis." Dr. Liu chaired the First International Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications (CVBIA) in conjunction with ICCV 2005 and co-edited the book: "CVBIA: Current Techniques and Future Trends" (Springer-Verlag LNCS). Dr. Liu serves as a reviewer/committee member/panelist for all major journals, conferences as well as NIH/NSF panels on computer vision, pattern recognition, biomedical image analysis, and machine learning. She had been a chartered study section member for Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics at NIH. She is a senior member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.