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