Farfesa Liao ya sami digirinsa na BS daga Jami'ar Taiwan ta kasa da kuma Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Wisconsin-Madison.
Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin masanin kimiyyar bincike a Kamfanin Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY, ya fara aikinsa na ilimi a Jami'ar Texas A&M a 1990 kuma ya koma Jami'ar California, Los Angeles a 1997. Shi ne Farfesa da Sashen Gidauniyar Ralph M. Parsons. Shugaban Injiniyan Sinadarai da Biomolecular har zuwa 2016. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Kwalejin Kimiyya da ke Taipei tun watan Yuni 2016.
Farfesa Liao memba ne na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Amurka, Kwalejin Injiniya ta Kasa, kuma Masanin Kwalejin Kimiyya da ke Taipei. Ya sami lambobin yabo da yawa da kuma karramawa, gami da lambar yabo ta Shugabancin Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2010), Fadar White House "Champion of Change" don sabbin abubuwa a cikin makamashi mai sabuntawa (2012), lambar yabo ta ENI Renewable Energy Prize wanda Shugaban Italiya ya ba shi a 2013. da lambar yabo ta 2014 National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science.
An sabunta shafin a watan Mayu 2024.
