Dr. Liqiang Nie received a B.E. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong
University of China, Xi'an, in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree from
National University of Singapore, in 2013. Currently, he is a
research fellow at the National University of Singapore. His
research interests include social network analysis and media
search. Various parts of his work have been published in top forums
including ACM SIGIR, ACM MM, IJCAI, TOIS, TIST, and TMM. He served
as the guest editor and special session chair for several journals
and conferences, respectively. Xuemeng Song is currently a Ph.D.
student at the School of Computing, National University of
Singapore. She received her degree from the University of Science
and Technology of China in 2012. Her research interests are
information retrieval and social network analysis. She has
published several papers in top venues, such as SIGIR and TOIS. In
addition, she has served as a reviewer for many top conferences and
journals. Dr. Chua is the KITHCT Chair Professor at the School of
Computing, National University of Singapore. He was the Acting and
Founding Dean of the School during 1998-2000. Dr. Chua's main
research interest is in multimedia information retrieval and social
media analysis. In particular, his research focuses on the
extraction, retrieval and question-answering (QA) of text, video,
and live media arising from the Web and social networks. He is the
director of a multi-million-dollar joint center (named NExT)
between NUS and Tsinghua University in China to develop
technologies for live media search. The project will gather, mine,
search, and organize user-generated content within the cities of
Beijing and Singapore. His group participates regularly in TREC-QA
and TRECVID video retrieval evaluations.
Dr. Chua is active in the international research community. He has
organized and served as program committee member of numerous
international conferences in the areas of computer graphics,
multimedia, and text processing. He is the conference co-chair of
ACM Multimedia 2005, ACM CIVR 2005, and ACM SIGIR 2008. He serves
on the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions of Information Systems
(ACM), Foundation and Trends in Information Retrieval (NOW), The
Visual Computer (Springer Verlag), and Multimedia Tools and
Applications (Kluwer). He is a member of the steering committee of
ICMR (International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval) and
Multimedia Modeling conference series and a member of the
international review panel of two large-scale research projects in
Europe.
Dr. Chua serves as the Chairman of the Board of Examiners for the
Certified IT Project Management ("CITPM") in Singapore. He is the
independent Director of two publicly listed companies in Singapore.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, UK.
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