Moprofesa Liao o fumane lengolo la hae la BS ho tsoa Univesithing ea Naha ea Taiwan le Ph.D. ho tsoa Univesithing ea Wisconsin-Madison.
Ka mor'a ho sebetsa e le rasaense oa lipatlisiso Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, o ile a qala mosebetsi oa hae oa thuto Univesithing ea Texas A&M ka 1990 'me a fallela Univesithing ea California, Los Angeles ka 1997. E ne e le Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Moprofesa le Lefapha. Molula-setulo oa Lik'hemik'hale le Biomolecular Engineering ho fihlela 2016. O sebelitse e le Mopresidente oa Academy of Sciences e Taipei ho tloha ka June 2016.
Moprofesa Liao ke setho sa US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, le Academician ea Academy of Sciences e Taipei. O amohetse likhau le liteboho tse ngata, ho kenyeletsoa Moputso oa Mopresidente oa Green Chemistry Challenge (2010), White House "Champion of Change" bakeng sa boqapi ba matla a tsosolositsoeng (2012), Moputso oa ENI Renewable Energy o fanoeng ke Mopresidente oa Italy ka 2013, le Khau ea 2014 ea National Academy of Sciences bakeng sa Tšebeliso ea Indasteri ea Saense.
Leqephe le ntlafalitsoe ka May 2024.
