Bing Liu Author

Bing Liu is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include lifelong machine learning, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. He has published extensively in top conferences and journals in these areas. Two of his papers have received 10-year Test-of-Time awards from KDD, the premier conference of data mining and data science. He has also authored three books: one on Web data mining and two on sentiment analysis. Some of his work has been widely reported in the popular press, including a front-page article in the New York Times. On professional services, he served as the Chair of ACM SIGKDD from 2013-2017, as program chair of many leading data mining related conferences, including KDD, ICDM, CIKM, WSDM, SDM, and PAKDD, as associate editor of many leading journals such as TKDE, TKDD, TWEB, and DMKD, and as area chair or senior PC member of numerous natural language processing, AI, Web research, and data mining conferences. He is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, and IEEE.