Bing Liu is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His current research interests include sentiment analysis, lifelong machine learning, natural language processing, and data mining. He has published extensively in top conferences and journals, and his research has been cited on the front page of the New York Times. Three of his research papers also received Test-of-Time awards. He is the recipient of ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award in 2018, and is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, and IEEE. He served as the Chair of ACM SIGKDD from 2013-2017.