Liang LIN is a Full Professor of computer science at Sun Yat-sen University. He served as the Executive Director and Distinguished Scientist of SenseTime Group from 2016 to 2018, leading the R&D teams for cutting-edge technology transferring. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers in leading academic journals and conferences, and his papers have been cited by more than 41,000 times. He is an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Multimedia and IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and served as Area Chairs for numerous conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, SIGKDD and NeurIPS. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including Wu Wen-Jun Artificial Intelligence Award, the First Prize of China Society of Image and Graphics, ICCV Best Paper Nomination in 2019, Annual Best Paper Award by Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) in 2018, Best Paper Dimond Award in IEEE ICME 2017, Google Faculty Award in 2012. His supervised PhD students received ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award, CCF Best Doctoral Dissertation and CAAI Best Doctoral Dissertation. He is a Fellow of IET, IAPR, and IEEE.