Bing Liu is a distinguished professor of Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining UIC, he was a faculty member at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also with Peking University for one year (2019-2020). His research interests include lifelong and continual learning, sentiment analysis, lifelong learning chatbots, open-world AI/learning, natural language processing (NLP), and data mining and machine learning.