Jie Liang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, the M.E. degree from National University of Singapore (NUS), and the PhD degree from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2003, respectively. Since May 2004, he has been with the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Director. In 2012, he visited University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. From 2003 to 2004, he worked at the Video Codec Group of Microsoft Digital Media Division. From 1997 to 1999, he was with Hewlett-Packard Singapore and the Center for Wireless Communications (now part of the Institute for Infocomm Research), NUS.

Jie Liang's research interests include Image and Video Coding, Multimedia Communications, Sparse Signal Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), Signal Processing: Image Communication, and EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. He is a member of the IEEE Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA) Technical Committee and Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Technical Committee , and is a Professional Engineer in British Columbia. He received the 2014 IEEE TCSVT Best Associate Editor Award, 2014 SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Leadership, and 2015 Canada NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) Award.