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Dr. Liqiang Nie, fellow of IAPR, received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and National University of Singapore (NUS), respectively. His research interest is multimedia content analysis and information retrieval. Dr. Nie has co-/authored more than 200 papers and 5 books, with 36,000 plus Google Scholar citations. He is an AE of IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-MM, IEEE T-CSVT, ACM ToMM, and Information Science. Meanwhile, he is the pc 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 five years, like ACM MM and SIGIR best paper honorable mention in 2019, the AI 2000 most influential scholars 2020, SIGMM rising star in 2020, MIT TR35 China 2020, DAMO Academy Young Fellow in 2020, SIGIR best student paper in 2021, the first price of the provincial science and technology progress award in 2021 and 2023 (rank 1), IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2022, ACM MM Best paper award in 2022, national youth science and technology award in 2024, and several first place awards of ground challenges organized by CCF A conferences. Some of his research outputs have been integrated into the products of Alibaba, Kwai, and other listed companies.