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Dr. Leo Liu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the joint College of Engineering at Florida A&M University (FAMU) and Florida State University (FSU). He is also affiliated with the FSU Research Computing Center and the FSU Institute for Successful Longevity. He co-chairs the Biorheology Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) at the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH). Occasionally, he serves as the RPTH podcast moderator for thrombosis and AI-focused talks!
The Liu Lab, the Group for Living Fluids (GoLF), seeks to understand the fundamental physics of blood clotting that affects hemorrhage and heart attacks/strokes usings supercomputing, AI and benchtop experimentation.
GoLF always welcomes highly self-motivated undergraduate, M.S./Ph.D. students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, who are interested in interdisciplinary research to join the team.
Interested applicants are encouraged to contact us via email or by chatting with our AI assistant (stay tuned)!
News
News
08/11/2026 - [Grant] Liu Lab received a multi-year research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Physics-AI framework and an AI-powered microfluidic device for probing microscale hemorheological hallmarks that mechanobiologically trigger life-threatening blood clotting, causing heart attacks and strokes.
08/01/2026 - In collaboration with Maryland, Technion, and Harvard, our work harnessing red blood cells as shear-responsive drug carriers for targeted release to arterial stenosis has now been published in Small.
07/01/2026 - Rukiye successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on unraveling how fluctuating micro-hemorheology affects the molecular and cell biology in controlling arterial thrombosis and hemostasis. Congratulations, Dr. Rukiye Canturk!
06/01/2026 - In collaboration with Sandia National Labs, our work (led by Hugo and Rukiye) on a new suspension-balance theory for modeling concentrated, deformable particle suspension flows through complex geometries has been published in Physical Review Fluids.
03/20/2026 - [Award] Dr. Liu has been awarded the 2026 FURA Research Mentor of the Year by the Florida Undergraduate Research Association.
02/10/2026 - [Award] Leah Dubose is selected as the recipient of the EUREKA Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Leah!
01/04/2026 - Our invited book chapter "Decoding Sickle Cell Hemorheology with Supercomputing and AI" has been published in Springer Nature.
12/10/2025 - Our blood clotting research, powered by world-class Exa-scale supercomputers, has been featured by Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (ACCESS, TACC, HPCwire).
12/07/2025 - Connor successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on computational modelling of crystallization. Congratulations, Dr. Connor Willis!
11/15/2025 - In collaboration with Georgia Tech, our work on the blood mechanics in dilutional coagulopathy has been selected as a peer-reviewed paper (to appear in Blood) to be presented at the 67th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting.
09/07/2025 - [Award] Our work on how blood suspension rheology regulates cellular and molecular mechanobiology (led by Rukiye) is awarded the Shmuel Einav Award for Mechanobiology at the 10th International Biofluid Mechanics and Mechanobiology Symposium (IBMS10). IBMS, founded by Shmuel Einav and Mory Gharib at Caltech in 2003, is the most prestigious conference in the field of biofluid mechanics and mechanobiology. This year marked the inaugural presentation of the Einav Award.
08/01/2025 - [Grant] Liu Lab received a research grant from the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research to develop a Miniaturized Flow-based POC Device for Assessing and Mitigating the Risks of Cannabinoid-associated Coagulopathy.
05/10/2025 - [Award] Dr. Liu received the 2024 Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award (YIA) for research excellence in thrombosis and hemostasis as one of six awardees selected worldwide, and notably, the sole recipient from the United States. (FSU, FAMU-FSU, and FSU ISL).
03/01/2025 - The Liu Lab welcomes Michael, Emaad, Rojan, and Hugo to the group.
01/31/2025 - Connor published his first Journal article studying flow-mediated crystalization. Congrats, Connor!
11/26/2024 - Rukiye and Connor presented two talks at the 2024 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and another two talks at the 2024 APS Conference Southeast Division.
10/31/2024 - [Grant] Liu Lab received a multi-institutional collaborative research grant from Sandia National Laboratories Laboratory-Directed Research Development (LDRD) program to develop a physics-data blended modeling framework for studying flow-induced solidification.
10/05/2024 - Dr. Liu visited the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch and gave an invited departmental seminar. Thanks to the invitation from Dr. Yunfeng Chen.
07/22/2024 - Connor and Dr. Liu gave talks at the 2024 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics in Vancouver, Canada.
07/01/2024 - Dr. Liu published an invited illustrative journal article on Shear-Induced Platelet Aggregation (SIPA) in Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Hemostasis (RPTH).
06/27/2024 - Dr. Liu gave 3 talks (2 invited and 1 contributed) at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) 2024 Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Among the talks, he gave a plenary State-of-Art (SoA) Talk entitled "Shear-Induced Platelet Aggregation: the Hemodynamic Pathway for Occlusive Thrombosis and Hemostasis" to uncover the biophysical and biofluid mechanical pathway for shear-induced platelet aggregation (SIPA) as the mechanistic causes for heart attacks and strokes. As part of the plenary talk, Dr. Liu will join 30 world-leading researchers in thrombosis and hemostasis to draft a joint journal article.
06/11/2024 - Rukiye gave a talk at the 2024 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
04/27/2024 - Rukiye published her first Journal article of a review on platelet biorheology and mechanobiology pertinent to heart attacks and strokes. Congratulations, Rukiye!
03/01/2024 - [Award] Congrats to JP Romero for winning an FSU IDEA grant for studying "Developing novel microfluidic chips based on 3-D printing and novel surface coating technology for cardiovascular disease applications." As 1 of the only 2 awardees from CoE out of 35 awardees from FSU who are awarded this grant, JP will work on cardiovascular device development. He is also invited to present at the 2024 President’s Showcase of Undergrad Research Excellence.
11/15/2023 - [Award] Congrats on Dr. Liu being selected by the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) as a State-of-the-Art Lecturer for the upcoming 2024 ISTH Congress meeting to happen in Bangkok, Thailand!
10/13/2023 - Dr. Liu gave 3 invited talks to the FSU College of Medicine, FSU Institute for Successful Longevity, and FSU Mechanical Engineering, respectively.
09/26/2023 - The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) has appointed Dr. Liu as the Co-Chair of the Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) on Biorheology. This appointment is effective on 10/01/2023 and has a term of 4 years.
09/24/2023 - Our group attended the 1st Tallahassee Bioengineering Symposium. We had fun communicating our scientific findings in thrombosis and hemostasis to the local community, especially to future generations!
06/01/2023 - [Grant] Liu Lab received a research grant through the First-Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Award from Florida State University.
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