Zheng Liu (S'99-M'02-SM'06) received a Doctorate in Engineering (earth resources) from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2000, and a Ph.D. degree (electrical engineering) from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2007. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Research Fellow with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Liu then joined the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) as a Governmental Laboratory Visiting Fellow nominated by NSERC in 2001. From 2002, he became a Research Officer associated with two research institutes of NRC (Aerospace [IAR] \& Construction [IRC]). From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a full Professor with Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan. He is now a professor with the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. His research interests include predictive maintenance, data/information fusion, computer/machine vision, machine learning, smart sensor and industrial IoT, AgTech, digital twin, and non-destructive inspection and evaluation. He is a senior member of IEEE and a fellow of SPIE. He holds a Professional Engineer license in both British Columbia and Ontario. Dr. Liu serves on the editorial boards for journals including IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Journal of RFID, Information Fusion (Elsevier), and Machine Vision and Applications (Springer).