Dr. Fiona Yan Liu's research interests include cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and multimedia computing. As the director of cognitive computing lab, she is responsible for organizing the daily operation of the lab and conducting research on utilizing cognitive science theories and findings to solve multimedia and intelligent problems by exploring machine learning techniques.

Dr. Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, her M.Sc. in Economics from Nanjing University, and her B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University. She got the Outstanding Organization Award in ACM ICMR 2012, Quality Reviewer Award in IEEE ICME 2011, Best Paper Award in ACM ICIMCS 2010, Special Recognition Award from Intel Research in 2003, IBM Fellowship in 2001, and Best Paper Award in IASTED ICIMSA 2000. She has served as TPC Chair in ICIMCS 2012 and Publication Chair in ACM Hong Kong Chapter. She has been TPC member for many top conferences such as AAAI and SIG MM, and reviewer for many world class journals, such as IEEE Trans. on Multimedia and IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Dr. Liu has been Principle Investigator for ten projects of multimedia search engineer and big data analysis.