Liu Bio

YAN LIU (M:'14) is a Principal Manufacturing Engineer at Medtronic Inc. in Tempe, Arizona. She works in the Process Development and Manufacturing Integration team, focusing on new product introduction of implantable medical products, and developing electronic packaging solutions and processes for implantable pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulator and other therapies. She worked on the development and improvement of microelectronics assembly and packaging processes like underfill and electronics cleaning processes.
Yan received her Ph.D degree in Materials Science & Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research interest was microelectronics and photonics packaging. She published over 30 peer reviewed journal papers and is a referee for 10 journals including IEEE Transactions on CPMT. She is the Young Professional Representative in IEEE Electronics Packaging Society since 2018, focusing on engaging young professionals in the EPS community. She is also a subcommittee member of ECTC Materials and Processing since 2016. She received the IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Young Professional Award in 2017, the IEEE CPMT Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2016, and the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology in 2014.