Dr Liu Ye is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland in the School of Chemical Engineering. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2010 and her research focuses on sustainable and cost-effective water and wastewater treatment, including on-line process control, novel technology development, resource recovery and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (monitoring, modeling, and mitigation of N2O) from biological wastewater treatment processes. She has more than 90 publications, including 61 fully refereed journal papers (with over 2000 citation and an h-index of 26 (Scopus, Oct 04, 2019)), and is a co-inventor of four patents. Dr. Ye has been awarded over $3M competitive research funding - including two Discovery Projects, Linkage projects, and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship from Australian Research Council - along with several other industry-funded projects. Liu also received more than eight scientific awards (including Research Innovation Award from Australia Water Association, UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award, etc.), and is an elected management committee member of the (IWA) Specialist Group on Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (ICA). She is also a member of the Australia Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), Engineers Australia (EA) and as a reviewer for 20 international journals. Dr Liu Ye is also affiliated with the Advanced Water Management Centre at UQ.