Liang is the Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the associate dean for research. He also serves as the director of the FSU High-Performance Materials Institute. He served as the Deputy Director of Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP: A NASA STRI). His research experience and expertise are in the areas of advanced composites, multifunctional nanomaterials and thin carbon nanotube materials, including synthesis, chemical functionalization, processing-structure-property relationships and multiscale characterization and manufacturing process modeling. He has published more than 180 journal articles and holds 40 patents for his work. He was named to the National Academy of Inventors in 2021.