Melissa Liu

My research project concerns low-income older adults in Southern California, autoethnography, experimental methods, alternative timings, concrete states of liminality, frontiers, and health. It is influenced by many disciplines and subfields, including speculative design; design anthropology; human centered design & engineering; built environments; indigenous research methodologies, methods, and ontologies; urban anthropology; visual and performing arts media; filmic theory; western psychology; western science; history of science; fictional literature; public health; global health.

I am a former NSF Fellow, earning the highest marks across the board from all reviewers for my proposed project on a dementia village for the NSF GRFP during my first year as a doctoral student. I was also part of the multidisciplinary Neuroethics thrust of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (now Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering), and NSF ERC (Engineering Research Center). 

I currently serve on the inaugural IRB at the ArtCenter College of Art and Design in Pasadena, California.