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In 2013, Liang and the other co-founders of Embrace, Jane Chen, Nag Murty, and Rahul Panicker were awarded the prestigious Economist Innovation Award, under the category of Social and Economic Innovation. In the same year, the organization was also recognized as Schwab Social Entrepreneurs of the Year by the World Economic Forum.

Liang also served as the first Chief Operations Officer of Embrace, the non-profit arm of the organization, before stepping into the COO role for Embrace Innovations, the for-profit social enterprise that was spun off in 2012.

Later, while finishing his degree at Stanford, Liang and a few other fellow graduate students were assigned a class project to create a low-cost infant incubator that could be used in rural areas. In 2008, they co-founded Embrace, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to bring their project to life. In January 2012, Embrace moved into a hybrid structure. The non-profit entity, Embrace, donates infant warmers to the neediest areas through NGO partners, and provides educational programs on newborn health alongside the distribution of warmers. The for-profit social enterprise, Embrace Innovations, sells the warmers to paying entities, including governments and private clinics, all focusing on emerging markets. Embrace believes that this type of "hybrid" structure allows it to most effectively achieve its mission: to supply its infant warmers to every baby in need. Embrace Innovations, the for-profit social enterprise, raised its Series A round of financing in 2012 from Vinod Khosla's Impact Fund and Capricorn Investment Group.

In 2007, Liang dropped out of Stanford to start a Facebook Application game company called CLZ Concepts with two fellow students. The games grew to having over 20 million users and CLZ Concepts was acquired shortly afterwards by Zynga.

Liang was born in Berkeley, California and raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Saratoga High School and graduated in 1999.