Leyuan Liu is a Doctoral and Master’s Supervisor and Professor at Central China Normal University. He received his Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and has been with the National Engineering Research Center for E-Learning since 2012.

His primary research interests encompass computer vision and computer graphics, AI-assisted special education, the educational metaverse, and educational robotics. In recent years, his research has been primarily devoted to leveraging AI and robotics technologies to support the screening, assessment, compensatory resource generation, and educational intervention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Professor Liu has led more than ten projects funded by organizations such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and has also been a key participant in several major national initiatives. He has published over eighty research papers in leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and at top-tier AI conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, and ACM MM. He holds more than twenty authorized Chinese patents and has received multiple academic honors, including the First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2020), the Second Prize of the Hubei Provincial Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Science (2018 & 2020), and the First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Award for Excellent Papers in Natural Science (2012). In addition, he has supervised students to win more than twenty awards in prestigious academic competitions.

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