Bing Liu is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining UIC, he was with the National University of Singapore. His current research interests include opinion mining and sentiment analysis, text and Web mining, data mining, and machine learning. He has ... Read morepublished extensively in top journals and conferences in these fields. Several of his publications are considered seminal papers of the fields and are highly cited. He has also given more than 30 keynote and invited talks in academia and in industry. On professional services, Liu has served as associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), and SIGKDD Explorations, and is on the editorial boards of several other journals. He has also served as program chairs of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2010), ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM-2010), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2008), SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM-2007), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2006), and Pacific Asia Conference on Data Mining (PAKDD-2002). Additionally, Liu has served extensively as area chairs and program committee members of leading conferences on data mining, Web mining, natural language processing, and machine learning. More information about him can be found from http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub. Show Less