Prof. Dr. Xiao Liu is an Associate Professor and Director of the Software Engineering Innovation Lab at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. He received his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Information Management and Information Systems from Hefei University of Technology in 2007 and 2004 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Swinburne University of Technology in 2011. He worked as an Associate Professor at the Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research areas include Software Engineering, Distributed Computing, and Service Computing, with special interests in workflow systems, cloud and edge computing, big data analytics, and human-centric software engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.