A Bay Area native, Dr. Liu graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, with a double major in Neurobiology and Public Health. After a post-graduate stint at Google, she returned to medical school at the University of California, Irvine. She then completed an Ophthalmic Pathology and Research fellowship at the University of Utah, Moran Eye Center, and an ophthalmology residency at Tufts Medical Center.
From there, she completed a clinically and surgically intensive fellowship at the Shiley Eye Institute of the University of California, San Diego. In addition, Dr. Liu has had extensive trauma experience at the University of New Mexico Hospitals, along with cutting-edge refractive surgery training with the Navy Refractive Surgery Center.