Shunyu Liu

Associate Professor

shunyul@clemson.edu
(864) 365-0476
4 Research Drive
Greenville, SC 29607
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Shunyu Liu joined the Department of Automotive Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2021 after earning her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in December 2020. She also holds a courtesy appointment in Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University. In 2026, she was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Her research integrates advanced manufacturing, materials science, applied mathematics, and data science to advance next-generation manufacturing technologies for high-performance materials and multi-functional devices. She has secured multiple externally funded research grants as PI and co-PI from NSF, DOE, and the U.S. Army. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2023), the SME Susan Smyth Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2024), the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellowship (2025), and the South Carolina Manufacturing Mavens (2025).

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, 2020.
• M.S., Materials Science, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, 2015.
• B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, 2012.

Research Interests

• Metal additive manufacturing
• Hybrid and convergent manufacturing
• Smart and digital manufacturing
• Materials and coatings for extreme environments
• Computational materials science
• Multi-physics, multi-scale modeling