The 5th International Conference on Digitalization and Management Innovation (DMI2026)

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Biography: Hui Liu is a Jiangsu Provincially Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Artificial Intelligence / Future Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). Recognized among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University and ranked within the global top 0.05% by ScholarGPS—where he is ranked 10th worldwide in the field of human behavior—he serves as Chief Scientist at Guodian Nanjing Automation Co., Ltd.; Chair Professor (Invited ) at the College of Arts, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology; Guest Professor at the Hochschule Osnabrück (Germany) – HFU Joint Institute; Researcher at Universität Bremen, Germany; and Doctoral Supervisor at NOVA Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He has been awarded the Erasmus+ Scholar in Europe, received a mobile teaching grant, and was selected as a Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) scholar, with a mobile research award.
Dr. Liu earned his B.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008, followed by a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität Berlin in 2009, and an M.Sc. in Information and Communication Systems from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. Since 2016, he has conducted research at the Cognitive Systems Lab, Universität Bremen, focusing on biosignal processing, human activity recognition, virtual reality, music information retrieval, and interdisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence, culminating in the award of his Ph.D. in 2021. He is co-responsible for four multi-institutional German national and industry-funded projects: Arthrokinemat (intelligent knee bandage), IntEL4CoRo (interactive learning for cognitive robotics), NF-BWB (development of young talents), and SEED (synthetic artificial biosignals for human-robot interaction).
He developed the first intelligent knee bandage capable of real-time recognition of users’ activities, earning the Best Student Paper Award (student author) at BIODEVICES 2019. In 2021, he proposed Motion Units—a novel activity modeling framework characterized by interpretability, generalizability, and expandability—integrating principles from kinesiology and speech recognition to advance human activity analysis. A co-authored paper on EMG-based action unit recognition received the Best Paper Award at BIODEVICES 2025. Additionally, two of his papers were nominated as Best Paper Finalists: one on high-level feature design (second author) at BIOSIGNALS 2022, and another on music signal processing (first author) at SIGMAP 2022.
Dr. Liu collected and released the CSL-SHARE dataset (2021), a 19-channel, 22-activity, 20-subject human activity recognition resource. Under his supervision, the ECG acquisition artifact dataset sensORder was published (2024). He has received several industrial accolades, including the CAMPUSiDEEN Public Choice Award for Smart Sensing and Recognition Technology (2022) and the 5th Prize in the Hangzhou Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Talents (2025). He has held leadership roles in over 20 major international conferences, serving as General Co-Chair, Executive Chair, Program Chair, Technical Program Chair, Area Chair, Session Chair, Publicity Chair, and Keynote Speaker at events such as the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), the 17th and 19th International Conferences on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), and the 7th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC). He is an editorial board member of multiple international journals and serves as a reviewer for more than 50 prestigious journals, including Nature Communications. In recognition of his exceptional peer-review contributions, he received the Sensors 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award and was designated a “Trusted Reviewer” by the Institute of Physics, UK, an honor conferred for demonstrating “extremely high-level peer-review capabilities”. In 2022, he served as Chairman of the Judging Committee at the European Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Talents, organized by the Chengdu Municipal Government.
Prof. Hui Liu’s dynamic international collaboration continues to flourish, now embracing a vibrant array of interdisciplinary frontiers—from AI-driven energy efficiency and smart building to human factors in aviation security, UAV technologies, maternal and fetal health monitoring, female aging, innovative tools supporting amateur vocalists, and surgical assistance for plica vocalis disorders. With remarkable momentum, numerous groundbreaking projects are advancing in parallel, each fueled by a passion for innovation and real-world impact. Ever enthusiastic and forward-looking, he warmly welcomes new opportunities for transformative, cross-disciplinary collaborations across diverse domains.