Digital Twin: A Magic Mirror?

Dr. Zheng Liu is a full professor in the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus). He holds dual doctoral degrees: a Doctorate in Engineering (measurement and evaluation) from Kyoto University, Japan (2000), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada (2007). Dr. Liu's career spans multiple institutions across three countries. Following his first doctorate, he served as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2000-2001). He then joined the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Ottawa as a Governmental Laboratory Visiting Fellow, nominated by NSERC in 2001. From 2002 onwards, he worked as a Research Officer with NRC's Aerospace and Construction research institutes. Between 2012 and 2015, Dr. Liu held a Full Professor position at Toyota Technological Institute in Nagoya, Japan, before joining UBC. His research focuses on advanced engineering applications, including predictive maintenance, data and information fusion, computer and machine vision, machine learning, smart sensors, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and non-destructive inspection and evaluation. Dr. Liu is recognized as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and the SPIE, and maintains Professional Engineer licenses in both British Columbia and Ontario. Dr. Liu has authored four books and published over 370 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and conferences. He actively contributes to the academic community through editorial service in several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Instrumentation and Measurement, AgriFood Electronics, and Information Fusion, Machine Vision and Applications, and IET/CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology.