Prof. Nie, Hua is currently a senior research librarian of Peking University Library, Beijing, China. She obtained her MLA in School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996 and her BS in the College of Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1986.

In 1997, Nie, Hua was employed by Peking University Library. Prior her current position, she served as a deputy library director of the library (from Jan. 2008 to Jan. 2019), worked as system librarian, head of systems and assistant library director. She is mainly responsible for library information infrastructure, library systems and workflows, digital library development, local digital content and initiatives development, digital content preservation, scholarly communication, library publishing and open access, digital humanities and digital scholarship.

For over twenty years, Prof. Nie has closely followed the challenges and opportunities of library management in the Internet era, especially the changes brought forth by disruptive innovation and crossing boundaries.  She has been leading and involving directly new programs and initiatives in  different levels and occasions-institutional, national and international.

Research areas she is particularly interesting include next-gen library service platform and systems, scholarly communication and open access, digital scholarship and digital humanities. Research projects she is responsible currently includes Open Research Repository of National Science Foundation of China, Digital Preservation of National Science and Technology Library; CALIS (China Academic Library and Information System) Institutional Repository Initiative, PKU Journal Online, PKU Open Research Data, PKU Open Scholars; PKU Digital Humanities Forum; Next-gen Library Service Solution Design, National Standard of Audio Materials Digitalization, National Standard of RFID for Library Application and so on. She has published publications in the above research areas and gave speeches and lectured on conferences both in Chinese and in English frequently. Her recent lecture and presentation experience include topics of library leadership and management, trends in academic library, scholarly communication, library publishing and open access, digital humanities and digital scholarship, as well as information and communication technologies innovations and implementations.

She also served in numerous international and domestic library associations, committees or working groups such as IFLA (Standing Committee of Management and Marketing Section); PRRLA (Pacific Rim Research Library Alliance), COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), China Library Standards Committee, China Institutional Repository Implementation Group, China Academic Research Data Implementation Group, Chinese Indexing Society and so on.