Summary
Can Liu is an Associate Professor and UX research scientist with 16 years of experience designing, prototyping, and evaluating novel input techniques across mobile, foldable, wearable, large-display and VR/AR platforms. He combines deep human-capability foundations from PhD-level research with practical product-facing work at Google on speech-to-text for Android and input research for ChromeOS. Having built his academic career across top HCI groups in France, the UK and Germany before leading a lab in Hong Kong, he secures both governmental and industry funding to translate experimental methods into strategic technology insights. His recent work leverages speech recognition and large language models to rethink speech-based text composition and revision, revealing interaction patterns that influence future interface design. Based in San Francisco, he blends rigorous experimental design with hands-on prototyping to uncover user needs that often go unnoticed until scaled.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Media Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay