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Yan Liu

Cryo-Elect Micros Eng, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

Current Role at StanfordStaff Engineer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
CryoEM Specialist, Stanford-SLAC CryoEM Center

BioDr. Yang Merik Liu is currently an Instructor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and is affiliated with the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland. He is a Co-I of the NIH/NIA R33 Grant, a core team member of the Stanford AITC, and was a PI supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Instrumentarium Science Foundation, carrying out research on digital measures with affective intelligence. Dr. Liu coordinated and managed awarded projects of the Research Council of Finland and the Finland Ministry of Education and Culture during his postdoctoral research in University of Oulu since Jan. 2022 (Academy Prof. Guoying Zhao). He was also a former researcher with the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, in 2023, and was a visiting scholar with Hong Kong Baptist University (Prof. Pong Chi Yuen) and University of Cambridge (Prof. Hatice Gunes), in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Dr. Liu has published more than 40 papers in reputable journals and proceedings. He served as the Session Chair of IEEE FG 2025, the Track Chair of IEEE COINS 2026, the Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neurosciences, and organized tutorials and workshops in international conferences, i.e., HHAI 2024 and IEEE FG 2025. He mentored junior doctoral researchers and co-supervised post-/undergraduate students. His research interests include neurobehavioral AI, affective computing, and cognitive brain aging.