Flora Liu Hardware Engineer

04 Speaking

Speaking

Engineering also means explaining a decision to people who did not run the test. I enjoy that part, and I am glad to do more of it.

Available Career talks · student sessions · engineering community events · panels

4.1

What I can talk about

Any of these can be sized to a 15-minute slot or a full session. Happy to shape something to your audience instead.

  • A

    What a hardware engineer actually does inside a global brand

    How a product moves from design to mass production, where NPI decisions get difficult, and who ends up carrying the risk.

  • B

    Reading test data like an engineer, not a spreadsheet

    Why the average lifetime is a dangerous number, what small samples can and cannot tell you, and how uncertainty gets made visible.

  • C

    Using AI without outsourcing your judgement

    Where agents genuinely remove friction in hardware development, where they must not be trusted, and how to keep an engineer accountable for the call.

  • D

    From mechanical engineering to hardware at a consumer brand

    A career path told honestly: the interviews, the coffee chats, the parts nobody puts on a résumé.

4.2

Previously

Techie Talk

Invited speaker

Tech Network · 2026

A meetup for tech-industry interns across SWE, HWE, PM and sales.

Shared what hardware engineering looks like inside a global consumer brand: from design to mass production, the decisions that get hard, and how AI can support the workflow without replacing the engineer.

Attendees and speakers gathered at the Techie Talk 2026 community event.
Fig 4.2.1 Techie Talk, 2026: a room of people from different backgrounds, which is the best kind of room to explain something in.

SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2026

Oral presentation

SPIE · Vancouver, Canada · 2026

An international conference on smart structures, materials and non-destructive evaluation.

Presented my master’s research, first author: a 9 × 6 × 0.5 mm ultrasonic piezoelectric plate motor with vision-based closed-loop control. Feedback cut orientation drift from 10.2° to 2.6°, reduced straight-line error by 82%, and let the motor carry nearly five times its own weight.

4.3

Invitations

The fastest way to reach me is email. It helps if you can include the audience, the format, the date and roughly how long you would like me to speak. A one-line message is fine too.

hua.flora.liu@gmail.com

Or message me on LinkedIn.