Dr Jun Liu (Senior Member, IEEE) received BSc. and MSc. degrees in Applied Mathematics, and PhD. degree in Information Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 1993, 1996, and 1999, respectively. He is currently a Reader in Computer Science, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) at School of Computing, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK. He worked in the field of AI for many years. He has authored or co-authored over 270 peer-reviewed publications in the field. He is the current Chair of IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), also the past Chair of IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Ireland Chapter (SMC28). He serves as an Associated Editor of IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems; also an Editor of Information Fusion, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science. He serves as chairs or co-chairs and program committees of a number of international conferences and workshops.