Prof. Kaida Xiao received his PhD from the Colour and Imaging Institute, University of Derby. Between 2005 and 2008, he was a Senior Researcher in the Computing and Intelligence LAB, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea, developing image immersive enhancement methods for UDTV. He was back in the UK in 2008 and worked for Tru-Colour Ltd., a spin-off company of the University of Liverpool, for visual display calibration to solve common colour mismatch problems for online shopping. In 2010, he joined the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, where he was first appointed as a post-doctoral research Associate and later promoted as a University Research Fellow. He worked as a research co-investigator and research fellow in the Department of Psychological Science, University of Liverpool, between 2013 and 2016 with Professor Sophie Wuerger. He joined the School of Design, the University of Leeds, in 2016, first as a University Academic Fellow in Affective Design Technology before being promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and Professor of Colour and Imaging Science in 2024. His research topics mainly include colour reproduction for 3D printing; skin colour measurement and analysis; spectral reflectance estimation for camera images; and colour appearance modelling.