Zheng Liu

Dr. Zheng Liu received his doctorate in engineering from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) in 2000 and earned a second Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa in 2007. From 2000 to 2001, he was a research fellow with the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He then joined the National Research Council (NRC) 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 Research [IAR] & Research in Construction [IRC]). From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Liu worked as a full professor for Toyota Technological Institute at Nagoya, Japan.

In August 2015, Dr. Liu joined the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) at Kelowna, BC, Canada. His research interests include non-destructive inspection & evaluation, condition assessment, predictive maintenance, data/information fusion, computer/machine vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and sensor/sensor network, digital twin and digital twin computing. Dr. Liu is a fellow of SPIE and a senior member of IEEE. He served as the vice president for publication at the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2016-2017) and is co-chairing the IEEE IMS TC-1. He holds professional engineer licenses in both Ontario and British Columbia. Dr. Liu also serves on the editorial boards for a number of peer-reviewed journals.