Prof. Qi LIU

University of Science and Technology of China, China

H-index 60

Qi Liu is currently a Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and he serves as the Vice Dean of the School of Artifical Intelligence and Data Science, USTC. His general area of research is data mining and knowledge discovery, with a focus on mining massive user-generated data for intelligent applications, e.g., intelligent education. He has published prolifically in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, ACM SIGKDD, NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI. These papers have been cited for more than 14,000 times, and his H-index is 61. Some of the proposed techniques have been applied in the real-world products for large-scale adaptive learning, serving for more than 55 million learners from both basic education and lifelong education. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the ACM SIGKDD2018 Best Student Paper Award (Research Track), IEEE ICDM2011 Best Research Paper Award, CIKM2023 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, and he was invited to deliver the Early-Career Spotlight Talk at IJCAI 2021. He is also one of the recipients of the Green Orange Award of Alibaba DAMO Academy. As the Principal Investigator, he has undertaken several projects such as the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Neurocomputing, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data.