Professor Irwin King is a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests span various areas, including machine learning, social computing, AI, and data mining. Professor King has published widely in top venues and serves as an editorial board member for numerous international publishers. He is the recipient of several Test of Time Awards in premier conferences (CIKM, SIGIR, and WSDM) and also the Dennis Gabor Award from INNS for his work in machine learning in social computing.  He is a Fellow of IEEE, INNS, AAIA, and HKIE, and an ACM Distinguished Member. Professor King has held leadership roles in prominent conferences and societies. He has served as the President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and has taken on key positions, such as General Co-chair, for many premier international conferences. Additionally, he is the Director of the ELearning Innovation and Technology (ELITE) Centre and the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing (MISC) Lab.  Professor King obtained his BS from Caltech and his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from USC.