KING Irwin Kuo Chin

Irwin King is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the university's Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education). His departmental profile records that he holds a bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. His research covers trustworthy AI, machine learning, social computing, natural language processing, graph neural networks and recommender systems. The profile records that he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the International Neural Network Society. He has served as President of the International Neural Network Society and as general co-chair of conferences including WebConf 2020, ICONIP 2020, ACML 2015, RecSys 2013 and WSDM 2011, and currently serves as Vice-President of ACM SIGWEB, Vice-President of the WebConf Steering Committee, and a board member of INNS and the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society. The profile also records the 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award for engineering applications of neural networks, the 2020 APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award and Test of Time Awards from ACM conferences including CIKM 2019, SIGIR 2020 and WSDM 2022. He directs the Centre for Learning Innovation and Technology (ELITE) and oversees the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing (MISC) Lab.