Xinyu Liu, Ph.D.

Dr. Xinyu Liu is a Senior Staff Consultant at Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi). He earned his Ph.D. degree in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His area of expertise includes human visual perception and cognition, attention, visual working memory and human information processing. Dr. Liu’s research involves investigating the plasticity of the human visual system and understanding the neural mechanisms of human visual perception under a dynamic perceptual environment.

Dr. Liu has conducted and participated in numerous accident investigations and failure analyses, including automotive accidents, industrial and occupational injuries, slip-trip-fall and other pedestrian-related incidents, analyses on the effectiveness of warning labels, Standard Operating Procedures and other instructional materials. Additionally, he has extensive experience in designing and conducting human behavioral studies, both in-lab studies as well as usability testing in industry. At ESi, Dr. Liu works closely with human factors, biomechanics, automotive, and safety industries.