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Dr Jun Liu is currently a Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) at School of Computing, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK. Before he joined Ulster, he was a Postdoc at The University of Manchester, and a Postdoc at Belgian Nuclear Research Centre. He received BSc. and MSc. degrees in Applied Mathematics, and PhD. degree in Information Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, in 1993, 1996, and 1999, respectively. He worked in the field of AI for many years. His current research is focused on two themes: 1) trust and explainable data-knowledge integrated AI decision model/system with applications in management, engineering, and industry field etc. (e.g., safety and risk analysis; policy decision making; security/disaster management; anomaly detection and behavioural analysis for fin-crime; and heath care and smart home); 2) logic and automated reasoning methods for intelligent systems including software verification and automated theorem proving. In particular: resolution-based automated reasoning methods, algorithm and tools with applications (including software verification and automated theorem proving); lattice-valued logics with focus on handling incomparability, inconsistency and imprecision. He has authored or co-authored over 270 publications with over 7500 citations, the H-index 35 (ISI Web of Science); the H-index (Google Scholar) as 41 for all publications; and the i10-index (Google Scholar) as 116 for all publications. He has been awarded over £20 Million of research funding from various funding bodies as grant holder and principle co-investigator. He is the past Chair of IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), also the past Chair of IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Ireland Chapter (SMC28). He is an IEEE Senior Member including IEEESMC and IEEECI. He serves as an Associated Editor of IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems; also an Editor of Information Fusion, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science. He serves as chairs or co-chairs and program committees of a number of international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.