He received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2001. Between 2001 and 2004, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia and in 2004, he moved to Zhejiang University. In 2006, he was awarded the Microsoft Young Professorship Award by the Ministry of Education of China and Microsoft Research Asia. He is currently on academic visit at Harvard Univerisity. Ligang's research interests include geometric modeling, computer graphics, and image processing. Some of his works could be found at his research website:http://www.math.zju.edu.cn/ligangliu