Dr. Ying-Hsang Liu is a researcher at the Professorship of Predictive Analytics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, specializing in interactive information retrieval, knowledge organization systems, and metadata applications in human-centered AI systems. His research focuses on knowledge organization systems' impact on retrieval and discovery, metadata in digital libraries, human-centered AI system design, search user interfaces, and predictive analytics enhanced by cognitive modeling.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from Rutgers University and has held academic positions at seven universities across five countries. His research has been supported by the Australian Research Council, Australian Research Data Commons, and Airbus.

Dr. Liu has published extensively on knowledge organization, metadata, and information retrieval. He serves on committees for ASIS&T and ALISE, the iSchool Digital Humanities Curriculum Committee, and the DCMI Education Committee. He has been on editorial boards for multiple journals including Online Information Review, Education for Information and Journal of Data and Information Management.

Dr. Liu is a Distinguished Member of ASIS&T and Director of Dublin Core Academy.