Cynthia C. S. Liem is a tenured Associate Professor at the Multimedia Computing Group of Delft University of Technology. She pursued Computer Science degrees (BSc, MSc, PhD) at Delft University of Technology, and Classical Piano Performance degrees (BMus, MMus) at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Furthermore, she gained considerable research and software engineering experience in industry at Bell Labs Europe Netherlands, Philips Research, Google UK, and Google Inc. in Mountain View, USA. Her research interests are in trustworthy and responsible AI; here, she especially focuses on techniques that make people discover new interests and content which would not trivially be retrieved, and questions of validation and validity in data-driven decision-making. After starting in music information retrieval, today, her research considers broader public-interest domains with high societal impact. With her track record in inter- and transdisciplinary collaborative research and public engagement (e.g. as first technical commenter on the childcare benefit scandal in The Netherlands), she became a sought-after communicator. She also is a committed teacher, playing a major role in developing mandatory courses on Responsible Computer Science and Responsible AI in the master's curricula in Computer Science and AI of TU Delft. Dr Liem received recognition through multiple awards (Lucent Global Science and Google Anita Borg Europe Memorial scholarships, Google European Doctoral Fellowship, finalist of the New Scientist Science Talent Award, Researcher-in-Residence at the National Library of The Netherlands, Women in AI Netherlands Diversity Leader Award, Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Dyson Pioneer Award), and was a 2021-2026 member of the Dutch national Young Academy. As a musician, she also still has an active performing career, particularly with the Magma Duo (with Emmy Storms, violin), which has been award-winning both nationally and internationally.