Beishui Liao is full professor of logic and computer science at Zhejiang University (since 2013), Qiushi Distinguished Professor (since 2019). He obtained his PhD degree from the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, in 2006. His main research interests are computational models of argumentation and their application in agents and multi-agent systems, explainable AI and ethical AI. He is now the director of the Institute of Logic and Cognition of Zhejiang University, co-director of ZLAIRE. He is the ‘AI Logic’ corner editor of Journal of Logic and Computation (with Prof. Leendert van der Torre), a steering committee member of DEON (since 2018), COMMA (since 2020) and AWPL (since 2020). He initiated the International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR) in 2015 (with Thomas Ågotnes and Yì N. Wáng). 

Personal Website: https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/beishui