Yang Liu graduated from Purdue University and Shanghai JiaoTong University in a joint 2+2 program in 2011 and now is currently in MIT M.S program of Mechanical Engineering, working with Dr. Tian Tian in the Lubrication Consortium to develop tools for predicting oil consumption and friction. His work is mainly focused on developing and improving Deterministic Model to simulate the friction between the ring-pack and the liner.