Prof. Cheng-Lin Liu serves as Vice President of Zhongguancun Academy. He is also a Vice President of the Intitute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Vice Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Pattern Recognition Journal and the Chinese Journal Acta Automatica Sinica, and Area Editor of the Chinese Journal of Image and Graphics. He sits on the editorial boards of International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Cognitive Computation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Machine Intelligence Research, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, and CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research.

He is a Vice President and Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and the director of the CAA Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. Prof. Liu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).