Qijun (Mandy) Liu

Background and Research Interests

Mandy Liu graduated with a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer System Engineering (dual major) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She was a Ph.D. student in the WISE-Circuits group from Fall 2018 to 2023. Mandy has been a recipient of a number of awards and scholarships as listed below. She is also a member of the engineering honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Her Ph.D. research work expanded on interdisciplinary topics, where she developed fully-integrated hardware solutions specifically for extreme low-power and scalable biomedical applications.

Awards & Scholarships:
  • IEEE SSCS Rising Stars’24 at ISSCC
  • IEEE ISSCC’23 SRP Best Poster/Demo Award
  • IEEE SSCS’23 Predoctoral Achievement Award
  • IEEE ISSCC Next Gen Circuit Designer Workshop’22 Participant
  • Catalyst Foundation Award’21
  • IEEE SSCS’20 Student Travel Grant Award for ISSCC
  • 1st place in the IMS’19 Graduate Student Challenge
  • IEEE IMS/RFIC’19 Ph.D. Student Sponsorship
  • 2015-2016 Glenna and Robert Leonard ’61 Scholarship
  • 2013-2016 New York Merit Scholarship for Academic Excellence
  • 2013-2016 Rensselaer Leadership Award