Dr. Liang is a Guerry Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His externally funded research encompasses a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art topics, including AI-enabled medical devices, big data and cloud computing, machine learning, quantum computing, high-performance computing, scientific modeling and simulation, numerical linear algebra, and computational mechanics. He has authored or co-authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles in leading venues, book chapters, and proceedings from international conferences, workshops, and symposia. Dr. Liang also contributes to the academic community through service on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Mathematics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics), Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make), Mathematics, Frontier in Aging (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging), Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417), International Journal of Smart Sensor Technologies and Applications (IJSSTA), International Journal of Security Technology for Smart Device (IJSTSD), Journal of Mathematical Research and Applications (JMRA), and Current Advances in Mathematics (CAM).