Flora Liu Hardware Engineer

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

What I can talk about

Each topic works as a 15-minute talk or a full session, and I can adapt it to your audience.

  • 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

    How to read reliability test data

    Why average lifetime can mislead, what small samples can and cannot tell you, and how to show uncertainty.

  • C

    How I use AI in hardware work

    Where AI tools save time in hardware development, where I don't trust them, and how I check their output.

  • D

    From mechanical engineering to hardware at a consumer brand

    My path so far: interviews, coffee chats, and what I learned along the way.

Previously

Techie Talk

Lightning speaker

Tech Network · 2026

A meetup for tech interns in software, hardware, product management 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.
Techie Talk 2026: interns from many backgrounds.

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° and let the motor carry nearly five times its own weight.

Flora Liu at the lectern at SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2026, beside a slide titled "Structure Design of the Miniature piezoelectric motor".
SPIE 2026, Vancouver: presenting the motor’s design.

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.