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Dr. Liqiang Nie, fellow of IAPR and AAIA, is currently the dean with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and National University of Singapore (NUS), respectively. His research interests lie primarily in multimedia content analysis and information retrieval. Dr. Nie has co-/authored more than 150 CCF-A papers and 5 books, with 22k plus Google Scholar citations. He is an AE of IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, ACM ToMM, and Information Science. Meanwhile, he is the regular AC or SPC of ACM MM, NeurIPS, IJCAI and AAAI. He is a member of ICME steering committee. He has received many awards over the past five years, like ACM MM and SIGIR best paper honorable mention in 2019, SIGMM rising star in 2020, MIT TR35 China 2020, DAMO Academy Young Fellow in 2020, SIGIR best student paper in 2021, first prize of the provincial science and technology progress award in 2021 (rank 1), provincial youth science and technology award in 2022, AI's 10 to Watch in 2022, and ACM MM best paper award in 2022. Some of his research outputs have been integrated into the products of Alibaba, Kwai, and other listed companies.