David Liu

Bridging Statistics & Public Policy with Service.

Where Evidence Meets the People It Misses.

Guided by a habit of counting things, David Liu, a researcher, game builder, legislative intern, volleyball captain and stage ensemble member, works on the problems that standard systems leave unsolved. A senior at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California, he builds virtual reality games for children with moderate to severe autism, wrote and published his own survey study of how neurodiverse students learn mathematics, and has interned since September 2025 in the office of California State Senator Josh Becker, where he follows a farmworker health law from the Governor's signature toward the farms it was written for.

Off the page he founded and captains his school's first boys varsity volleyball team, has sung in the ensemble of three school musicals, and is president of the youth civic organization he started in 2024. Here you will find the work itself: the games, the papers, the law, the teams and the stage.

  • Researcher
  • Builder
  • Advocate
Portrait of David Liu in a navy suit and tie, smiling, photographed outdoors against green foliage.
Builder
David Liu helping a child wearing a virtual reality headset during a training session in a community hall.
Competitor
A boys volleyball match in a school gym, a player rising at the net to attack.
  • Researcher
  • Builder
  • Advocate

David
in Pictures

Four rooms he keeps going back to: a VR session, a farm on the San Mateo coast, a gym, a stage.

Advocate
Volunteers and farmworkers gathered in front of the ALAS Farmworker Equity Express bus, a painted mobile resource center, on a farm.
Performer
The cast of a school musical on stage in Renaissance costume in front of a painted half-timbered house.

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Publications and Records

  • The paper's page on IEEE Xplore

    Teaching Turn Taking to Autistic Children Using an Individualized Virtual-Reality Game

    D. Liu and E. Liu. 2026 17th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning (IC4e). IEEE, 2026.

  • First page of the journal article

    Math Literacy of Neurodiverse Children in the Bay Area: Quantifying Challenges and Opportunities for Intervention

    D. Liu. Humanities and Social Science Research 9, no. 1 (March 2026): 80. Sole author.

  • The chaptered text of Senate Bill 338 on the California Legislative Information site

    Senate Bill 338, Chapter 311, Statutes of 2025

    Virtual Health Hub for Rural Communities Pilot Program. Becker. Signed 3 October 2025. The law he works on implementing in the senator's office.

  • The San Mateo Daily Journal article

    "Pair of new laws aim to help ease health care access"

    San Mateo Daily Journal, 9 October 2025. On SB 338 and the office's implementation work, with David quoted.

  • USPTO electronic acknowledgement receipt for application 19/303,267

    US Patent Application 19/303,267

    "AI-Assisted Virtual Reality System and Method for Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention." Filed 18 August 2025, TWINKLEPLUS Inc.; first named inventor David Liu. Pending.

  • First page of the MATHCOUNTS Number Theory 101 handout

    MATHCOUNTS Number Theory 101

    A five-page session handout David wrote for the middle school team he coaches: divisibility, prime factorization, divisor counting, with worked chapter and state problems.