Tiffany Q. Liu

Tiffany Q. Liu has a diverse work experience spanning different companies and roles. Tiffany Q. is currently working at Energy Robotics as a Robot Operations Engineer. Prior to that, they worked at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for almost a decade, starting as a Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics. Their work there involved developing a cognitive architecture for a balancing mobile manipulator and included tasks such as low-level controllers, high-level planning, UI design, object representation, and task-driven belief-space planning. Tiffany Q. also served as a Teaching Assistant during their time at the university.

Before their tenure at the University of Massachusetts, Tiffany had an internship at Emulex as a Firmware Design Verification Testing (DVT) Intern. Tiffany Q. also worked at Smith College in various roles, including a Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Picker Engineering Program Design Team. In their research assistant role, they designed software tools for studying biological assemblies and conducted benchmarking and profiling tests. Tiffany Q. also contributed to the design and development of a high elongation strain gage for medical applications as part of the Picker Engineering Program Design Team.

Additionally, Tiffany worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Science at Smith College and served as a Student Media Specialist at the Center for Media Production. Tiffany Q. also undertook independent study as a student researcher, where they surveyed complex programmable logic devices and designed circuits. Furthermore, they were a Summer REU Research Assistant, where they contributed to the front- and back-end implementation of generating biological assemblies of proteins for a web-based application.

In their early career, Tiffany worked as a Technology Learning Commons Lab Consultant at Smith College.

Tiffany Q. Liu completed their education with a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science - Robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which they pursued from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, from 2008 to 2012, they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering Science from Smith College. Additionally, they obtained certifications in the CITI Responsible Conduct of Research Course from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in July 2012 and the FERPA Certification in January 2019.