Rong Liu received the B.S. degree in surveying and mapping engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, in 2018. She is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, China. She was a postdoc researcher and senior researcher with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, and also with Signal Processing in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich from 2018 to 2021. Her research interest includes remote sensing image processing, machine learning and evolutionary computation.