Katrina Liou is a student at Stanford University with her B.S. in Product Design/ Art Practice, and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering focused on Product Realization and Manufacturing. In addition to being a student, she enjoys playing volleyball, hiking in National Parks, and helping teach Design 1: Introduction to Design and Design 283Q: Tinkering with Inequity Emerging Tech at the Stanford d.school.
Her professional experience specializes in product design for digital enterprise products, with past experience at large tech companies such as Apple, Nike, and Cisco. She also has experience in marketing, project management, and visual/ graphic design.
Katrina’s roots lie in the fine arts. Her artwork explores themes of imperfection, human anatomy, and the human condition, often asking the question “What does it mean to be human?” She depicts the human body to explore the deeply hidden subtleties of the individual, and in metaphoric imagery of human interaction, she searches for hints of character, personality, and secrets to embed in the portrayal of flesh, folds of skin, and fat. Through this technique, she depicts the external elements as a display of internal emotion and personality. Examining the human condition through an anatomical lens allows her to engage in an interdisciplinary field that combines two seemingly disparate (and also favorite) topics: art and science.