My name is Mengyu Liu (刘梦雨). I’m an assistant professor at Washington State University Tri-Cities. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame in 2025 under the advice of Professor Fanxin Kong. I also work closely with Professor Insup Lee and Professor Oleg Sokolsky. I received DAC Young Fellow in 2020, ACM ESWEEK SRC in 2024, NSF CPS Rising Star in 2025.

[Recruiting PhD students and Interns] I am actively seeking highly motivated students for PhD students and Research Interns starts from Spring 2027 (For interns, you have to be physically at USA). If you are interested, please send me your CV, transcripts, and brief descriptions about why you want to work with me.

Email: mengyu DOT liu AT wsu.edu

Research Interests

My research focuses on cyber-physical systems (CPS), including safety, security, real-time control, and foundation models. I am particularly interested in reinforcement learning for control synthesis with formal guarantees, and CPS security under adversarial settings.

News

• [2026-08] I served as a TPC for Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)’27.
• [2026-08] I served as a committee for VehicleSec’26 poster.
• [2026-08] I served as a committee for EMSOFT’26 artifact evaluation.
• [2026-08] Our DTRL paper is accepted to RTSS’26, congratulations Yufeng!
• [2026-06] I received a NAIRR Pilot Award for our rescue robots with VLA models, thank you NSF!
• [2026-05] I attended NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing.
• [2026-04] I recerived a seed research grant from WSU Tri-Cities for quantum computing, thank you WSU Tri-Cities!
• [2026-03] I joined Northwest Quantum Nexus.
• [2026-03] I’m affliated to Institute for Quantum Research at WSU.
• [2026-03] My student Eric received Novice award for undergraduate research competition, congratulations Eric!
• [2026-02] We got two workshop papers accepted to ASPLOS’26!
• [2026-02] Our Rural AI project got funded by President Big Idea Initiative, thank you WSU!
• [2025-09] Received a supplementary fund for research, thank you WSU!
• [2025-08] I joined WSU Tri-Cities as an Assistant Professor.