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Dr. Liqiang Nie, fellow of IAPR, is the director with the College of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen campus). He received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and National University of Singapore (NUS), respectively. His research interests are multimedia content analysis and information retrieval. Dr. Nie has co-/authored more than 150 papers and 5 books, with 30,000 plus Google Scholar citations. He is an AE of IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-CSVT, ACM T-oMM, and Information Science. Meanwhile, he serves as the chair of ICMR 2025, ICME 2025, and ACM MM 2027. He is a member of ICME steering committee. He has received many awards over the past four years, like SIGMM rising star in 2020, MIT TR35 China 2020, SIGIR best student paper in 2021, IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2022, ACM MM Best paper award in 2022, and the National Youth Science and Technology Award in 2024. Some of his research outputs have been integrated into the products of Alibaba, Kwai, and other listed companies.