Dr. Yan Liu is a Full Professor and Gina Cody Research and Innovation Fellow at Concordia University (2023-2024). Before her faculty position, Yan worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) laboratory and the US Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with ten years of experience with large-scale software systems. As a tenured faculty member, Yan’s research is generously funded by NSERC Discovery Grants, the Quebec FRQNT New Research Award, and MITACS and industry collaborators in the domains of telecommunication, health care, sensor networks, NLP for public services, cloud game servers, and digitization of building architecture design. Yan has two US patents granted. Her recent research is focused on the foundation of explainable AI and service computing for XAI-as-a-Service.