Zhi Liu is a senior fellow researcher/professor and PhD supervisor at the National Engineering Research Center of Education Big Data, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Central China Normal University. He also holds a position as a guest researcher at the Computer Science Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin. With deep expertise in text mining, sentiment analysis, educational data mining and intelligent tutoring systems, Liu has published over 60 SCI/SSCI indexed papers in top journals, including Knowledge-Based Systems, Computers & Education, Internet and Higher Education, and IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. In addition, he serves as a key member of the national expert database for graduate education evaluation, a peer review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the principal investigator of National Natural Science Foundation and the National Key R&D Program of China (2030 Major Projects). Liu is actively involved in international academic communities, serving in various leadership roles including as the chair of the organizing committee for the ICET. He is a guest associate editor for the international journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and sits on the editorial boards of Discover Education and Frontiers in Psychology, and holds the Lifetime Member status of the Chinese Association of Automation. His contributions have been widely recognized, earning him numerous awards including the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hubei Province in 2024, First Prize of the Teaching Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions in Hubei Province in 2022, and the honor of being a Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) for 2024.