{"id":18,"date":"2018-08-03T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2018-08-27T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:07:46","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. I work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/\">David Hu&#8217;s<\/a> Biolocomotion Lab, and I am interested in how living organisms use fluid mechanics to survive in their environments. I began studying honey bees as an undergraduate student and have continued my research into grad school.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1110-e1533740864199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-82 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1110-e1533740864199-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1110-e1533740864199-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1110-e1533740864199-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1110-e1533740864199-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marguerite and undergraduate researcher Oliver Howington film bees depositing their pollen loads in the comb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently I am interested in studying how honey bees collect and transport pollen during the pollination process. I also study how mammals use their tails to deter biting insects from landing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9920-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marguerite and undergraduate researcher Kasey Cockerill studying how mosquitoes are affected by a swishing mammal tail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After I graduate, I want to become a professor and continue studying biological systems from an engineering perspective. I specifically want to use my knowledge of fluid mechanics to discover how animals, from insects to mammals, have evolved to best survive in their environments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MargPye_bees-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MargPye_bees-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MargPye_bees-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MargPye_bees-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MargPye_bees.jpg 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marguerite and Pye in a Halloween costume contest in 2004. Predicting my future research interests!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Header photo credit: Candler Hobbes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. I work in David Hu&#8217;s Biolocomotion Lab, and I am interested in how living organisms use fluid mechanics to survive in their environments. I began studying honey bees as an undergraduate student and have continued my research into grad school. Currently I am interested &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Liu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}