Dong Liu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was a Member of Research Staff with Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China, from 2009 to 2012. He joined USTC as a faculty member in 2012 and became a Professor in 2020.

His research interests include image and video processing, coding, analysis, and data mining. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, which were cited more than 18000 times according to Google Scholar (h-index > 50). He has more than 30 granted patents. He has several technique proposals adopted by standardization groups. He received 2009 IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award, VCIP 2016 Best 10% Paper Award, and ISCAS 2022 Grand Challenge Top Creativity Paper Award. He and his students were winners of several technical challenges held in ISCAS 2023, ICCV 2019, ACM MM 2019, ACM MM 2018, ECCV 2018, CVPR 2018, and ICME 2016.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, CCF, and CSIG, an elected member of MSA-TC of IEEE CAS Society, and an elected member of Multimedia TC of CSIG. He serves or had served as the Chair of IEEE 1857.11 Standard Working Subgroup (also known as Future Video Coding Study Group), an Associate Editor for IEEE TIP, a Guest Editor for IEEE TCSVT, an Organizing Committee Member for VCIP 2022, ChinaMM 2022, and ICME 2021.