Yu Ping Liu

Yu Ping Liu, longtime resident of Rolling Hills, passed away on February 18, 2018 at the age of 72. He shared 47 years of marriage with his loving wife Chiling. He is also survived by his brother Yu Nan Liu (wife, Mary Liu), his sister Yin-An Liu Tsai (husband, James Tsai), his daughter, Alice Liu Jensen (husband, Christopher Jensen), his son Bryan Liu (wife, Kristy Liu), and three grandsons, Garrett Liu Jensen, and Brandon and Lucas Liu.

Yu Ping was born on May 7, 1945 in Nanping, China, the first-born son of Ching-Lee Liu and Ching- Kun Shieh. His family emigrated to Taiwan in 1946 shortly after his birth. Yu Ping graduated from National Cheng Kung University in 1966 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He then emigrated to the United States and earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Yu Ping became a lifelong Wolverine fan, and also became a lifelong fan of Chiling, marrying her in Ann Arbor on June 12, 1971.

The newlyweds moved to Southern California in 1973 and settled in Palos Verdes in 1976. Yu Ping started his career at Northrop Corporation in 1976, quickly rising to become a Vice President in 1986. He received several United States Patents while at Northrop relating to "stealth" technologies that reduced the radar signature of military weapons for the United States military. He was the co- inventor of the YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Tri-Service Stealthy Attack Missile and made significant contributions to the Tacit Blue, the B-2 Stealth Bomber, the F-18E/F Super Hornet, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Yu Ping also worked on the F-20 Tigershark, the BQR-74 aerial target drone, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the DD(X)/DDG 1000 Guided Missile Destroyer. After thirty years, Yu Ping retired from Northrop Grumman in 2006. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1997 and achieved the Life Fellow status in 2009. Yu Ping was recognized as a Pioneer of Stealth in 2000 and contributed to the Pioneers of Stealth book published in 2017.

Yu Ping was passionate about adventure sports, introducing his family to alpine skiing and whitewater rafting, a tradition his children and grandchildren continue. Over Christmas 2017, he was proud to ski with his grandsons in Big Sky, Montana. Yu Ping was an avid tennis player, golf enthusiast, bridge partner, and ping pong player. He loved to travel and visited all fifty states and 58 countries around the world. Yu Ping is remembered by friends and family as having a great sense of adventure, the ability to see the good in every situation, and a fun loving spirit.

Yu Ping will be remembered at a funeral service to be held in Green Hills Memorial Chapel on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 2pm. In lieu of flowers, tax deductible memorial donations may be made to the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Checks may be made payable to "University of Michigan" with memo line notation "In memory of Dr. Yu Ping Liu" and mailed to: Michigan Engineering, 1221 Beal Avenue, Suite G264, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Online donations may be made by credit card at https://www.giving.umich.edu/give/317672 .