Liqiang Nie is currently a professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University. In addition, he is the adjunct dean with the Shandong AI institute. He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2009 and the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013, respectively. After his Ph.D., Dr. Nie continued his research in NUS as a research fellow for three and half years. His research interests lie primarily in multimedia computing and information retrieval. Dr. Nie has authored and/or coauthored more than 100 papers for SIGIR, ACM MM, TOIS, and TIP, received more than 4,800 Google Scholar citations. He is an AE of Information Science, and an area chair of ACM MM 2018/2019.