Mushuang Liu

Mushuang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Before joining Virginia Tech, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri from 2022 to 2025 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan from 2021 to 2022. Her research integrates control theory, game theory, and reinforcement learning to develop autonomous systems that can learn, adapt, and interact effectively with humans and other agents in complex multi-agent systems. She received the 2024 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Mahbub Islam Wayne State University Biography: Dr. Mahbub Islam is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University (WSU), where he leads the Atomic-scale Predictive Simulation and Modeling (aPriSM) Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2016 and conducted postdoctoral research in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University before joining WSU in 2019. His research integr