Zhi Liu is the PI of affective computing research group, associate researcher and doctoral supervisor at the National Engineering Research Center of Educational Big Data, Central China Normal University. His focuses include learning analytics and educational data mining. He was a guest researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of Humboldt University of Berlin from 2017 to 2018. He is an expert for National Graduate Education Evaluation and Monitoring, an evaluation expert of the National Natural Science Foundation and an evaluation expert for Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and the leader of the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Project and National Natural Science Foundation.

He is currently the guest associate editor of the international journal “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence”, the editorial board member of “Frontiers in Psychology”, and the chair of the special Conference on Learning Analytics of the Learning Science Research Branch of the Chinese Association of Higher Education, the organizing committee chair of International Conference of Educational Technology (ICET).