Dr Haiming Liu is an Associate Professor at the WAIS research Group of ECS. Haiming joined ECS in May 2022 after 12 years of academic career at various UK institutions. Haiming completed her PhD on User-Centred Interactive Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) in 2010 at the Open University, and she has continued in and extended this research area during her academic career, through collaborating with other academics and industry partners. Haiming specialises in understanding users’ preferences and behaviours during their information access (such as searching, seeking, exploring and recommendation) for all users, and designing and developing user-centred interactive information access technologies for different applications (such as E-Health, E-Learning, E-business, E-Government and Digital Humanities).