Irwin King

Professor Irwin King, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Distinguished Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering, has a diverse research portfolio in machine learning, social computing, artificial intelligence, and data mining. His work is published in prestigious venues, and he serves on editorial boards for international publishers. He has earned numerous accolades, including Test of Time Awards at ACM CIKM, ACM SIGIR, and ACM WSDM, and the Dennis Gabor Award from INNS for pioneering work in machine learning within social computing. As a Fellow of ACM, IEEE,AAAI, and INNS, he has shown exceptional leadership. He has held significant roles, such as President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and Vice-Chair of ACMSIGWEB. He directs the E Learning Innovation and Technology (ELITE) Centre and the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing (MISC) Lab. He received a B.Sc. from Caltech, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC.

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