Meichun Liu is a scholar and an award-winning designer whose work explores the boundaries between mass production and handcraft, tangible and digital, and individual and systemic. Her current research examines how technological artifacts impact the ways that humans experience and interact with the world at different scales. She has received over a dozen design and innovation awards and has worked on wide-ranging design projects from those on smart crafts to biomedical products.

Liu is a recipient of the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship for the project, "Touching Tacit Knowledge: Preserving the Embodied Practices of Artists through Tactile and Virtual Archives." This interdisciplinary humanities research project seeks to preserve, document, and make accessible the embodied forms of knowledge that drive craft-based creation. By combining tactile recordings of tools with first-person VR immersion, this project will create a multi-sensory archive capturing tactile tool-hand interactions and embodied learning processes. Drawing on concepts of tacit knowledge, embodiment, and boundary objects, the goal of this project is to develop tools and document the hidden dimensions of craftsmanship.