Prọfesọ Liao nwetara akara ugo mmụta BS ya na Mahadum National Taiwan na Ph.D. sitere na Mahadum Wisconsin-Madison.
Mgbe ọ rụsịrị ọrụ dị ka ọkà mmụta sayensị nyocha na Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY, ọ malitere ọrụ agụmakwụkwọ ya na Mahadum Texas A&M na 1990 wee kwaga Mahadum California, Los Angeles na 1997. Ọ bụ Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair Prọfesọ na Ngalaba Onye isi oche nke Chemical na Biomolecular Engineering ruo 2016. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye isi oche nke Academy of Sciences dị na Taipei kemgbe June 2016.
Prọfesọ Liao bụ onye so na US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Academician of the Academy of Sciences dị na Taipei. Ọ natala ọtụtụ onyinye na nzere, gụnyere Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2010), White House "Champion of Change" maka innovations na ume ọhụrụ (2012), ENI Renewable Energy Prize nyere site n'aka Onye isi ala Italy na 2013. na 2014 National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science.
Emelitere ibe a na Mee 2024.
