我主要研究步甲科青步甲族，发表过十几个青步甲的新种，还有琥珀化石一个新种。另外喜欢全世界各地科考拍摄动植物。
Publications：

1. Frank Hennemann, Oskar V. Conle，Weiwei Zhang，Ye Liu. Descriptions of a new genus and three new species of Phasmatodea from Southwest China (Insecta: Orthoptera: Phasmatodea). February 2008, Zootaxa 1701(1701):40-62
2. Liu, Y., Liang, H. B. "Four new Chlaenius species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Chlaeniini) from Asia and a key to the species of subgenus Chlaenioctenus." Zootaxa 3630.3 (2013): 505-518.
3. Liu, Y., Liang, H. B., Kavanaugh, D. H., & Yang, M. F. (2010). Key to species of the subgenus Chlaenioctenus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Chlaeniini: Chlaenius), with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2397(1), 15-28.
4. Liu Ye, et al. "A Key to species of subgenus Lithochlaenius (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Chlaeniini, Chlaenius), with descriptions of three new species." ZooKeys 128 (2011): 15.
5. Liu, Ye, et al. "The first record of Cretaceous ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini) from Burmese amber." Cretaceous Research 52 (2015): 427-430.
6. Wang, Bo, Liu Ye et al. "The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia." Science advances 7.18 (2021): eabg0625.