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<fs large>Irwin King, [[:wisc_lab:home|WISC Lab]]</fs>
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[[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=JOHN+8:32|"...the truth shall set you free.", Caltech's Motto]]
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Professor, B.Sc. ([[http://www.caltech.edu/|Caltech]]), M.Sc., Ph.D. ([[http://www.usc.edu/|USC]])\\
President of International Neural Network Society, ([[http://www.inns.org|INNS]])\\
General Co-chair, [[https://www2020.thewebconf.org|The WebConf 2020]], Taipei\\
Director, Centre for eLearning Innovation and Technology ([[https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/elite/|ELITE]])\\
Director, Rich Media Big Data Analytics and Application Key Laboratory, Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI), The Chinese University of Hong Kong\\
Principal Investigator, The Knowledge and Education Exchange Platform ([[https://keep.edu.hk|KEEP]]) Project\\
Principal Investigator, [[https://veriguide.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/|VeriGuide]] Project\\
Former Associate Dean (Education), Engineering Faculty\\
[[http://www.ieee.org/portal/site|FIEEE]] ([[http://ieee-cis.org/|CIS]]), [[http://www.acm.org/|SMACM]], [[http://www.apnna.net|APNNA (VP, BoG)]], [[http://www.hkie.org.hk|FHKIE]], [[http://www.irwinking.com|IrwinKing.com]]\\
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[[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/|Department of Computer Science and Engineering]] (Room 908)\\
[[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]], Shatin, NT, Hong Kong\\
**Phone**: +(852) 3943 8398;  **Fax**: +(852) 2603 5024\\
**Email**: king [ at ] cse [ dot ] cuhk [ dot ] edu [ dot ] hk

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See me in [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/k/King:Irwin.html|DBLP]], [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MXvC7tkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|Google Scholar]], [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irwin_King|ResearchGate]]
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====== Research Interests ======
  * **Machine learning, social computing, neural networks, web intelligence, data mining, information retrieval, plagiarism detection, multimedia information processing**
    * Natural language processing, Q&A, key phrase summarization, sentiment analysis, etc.
    * Graph neural networks, graph embedding, knowledge graph, etc.
    * AI and graph applications in medicine, e.g., protein folding, data mining of health records, medical knowledge graph, etc.
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<color red>**Multiple Positions Available (December 2021)**</color>
  * Looking for qualified **PhD candidates** interested in graph neural networks, knowledge graphs, machine learning, NLP, social computing, AI, data mining, or related fields to start in August 2022.
  * Looking for experienced **programmers/software engineers/web developers** to work in front-end and back-end web development projects involving AI, education, and related projects.  Please see this [[https://keep.edu.hk/en/careers|link]] for more information on various engineering positions available.

  * Post 1: [[https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_non_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=210000UW&tz=GMT%2B08%3A00&tzname=Asia%2FHong_Kong|Assistant Computer Officer (carrying the job title of ‘Software Engineer’) - (210000UW)]]
  * Post 2: [[https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_non_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=210000UV&tz=GMT%2B08%3A00&tzname=Asia%2FHong_Kong|Computer Technician II (carrying the job title of ‘Analyst Programmer’ or ‘Full Stack Developer’) - (210000UV)]]
  * Post 3: [[https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_non_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=210000UX&tz=GMT%2B08%3A00&tzname=Asia%2FHong_Kong|Computer Technician II (carrying the job title of ‘Educational Technology Specialist’) - (210000UX)]]

** For Interested PhD Candidates **
For interested candidates, please send your CV, a publication list, and a brief (1-2 page) statement of your research interests to Prof. Irwin King, [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk|email]].

/*    * A two-year full-time post-doctoral position is available at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, starting in Spring/Summer 2019.  The successful candidate will work with Prof. Irwin King and others in the group, on developing knowledge graphs for medical applications, i.e., NLP, recommender systems, graph embedding, etc.  For interested candidates, please send your CV, a publication list, and a brief (1-2 page) statement of your research interests to Prof. Irwin King, [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk|email]]. */


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<color red>**Postgraduate Studentship**.  We are always looking for excellent postgraduate students who are energetic, creative, analytical, hard working, and well-grounded in mathematics to join our group to work on machine learning and social computing related projects.\\ Send an [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk|email]] with your interests and resume.</color>
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<color red>**Postdoc Position Available in Machine Learning for Social Computing**.  A one-year full-time post-doctoral position is available at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, starting in Spring/Summer 2011.  The successful candidate will work with Prof. Irwin King and others in the group, on developing machine learning techniques for social computing, i.e., recommender systems, user modeling, Q&A, mobile advertising, etc.  For interested candidate, please send your CV, a publication list, and a brief (1-2 page) statement of your research interests to Prof. Irwin King, [[king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk|mail]].</color>
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====== Recognition, Achievements, and Events ======
  * CUHK's Computer Science discipline has been ranked #10 Best Global Universities for Computer Science by the US News and World Report [[https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/computer-science|URL1]] [[https://www.facebook.com/CUHKofficial/posts/3010515512598405|URL2]]
  * Honorable Mentions in 2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in AAAI/IJCAI and Data Mining [[https://www.aminer.cn/ai2000|URL]]
  * Honorable Mentions in 2020 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in AAAI/IJCAI and Data Mining [[https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-engineering-scholars-recognised-by-inclusion-in-ai-2000-most-influential-scholar-annual-list/|URL]]
  * Received 2020 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) Outstanding Achievement Award
  * Received Best Student Paper Award @ ICONIP 2020, November 18-22, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand
  * Received the University Education Award (Teams) for the 2019-2020 academic year 
  * Received the Test of Time Award at ACM SIGIR 2020.
  * Received the Test of Time Award at ACM CIKM 2019.
  * Becoming IEEE Fellow in 2019
  * Becoming ACM Distinguished Member in 2019
  * Becoming President of the International Neural Network Society in 2019
  * Organizing The WebConf2020, Taipei from April 20-24, 2020 as General Co-chair
  * Organizing ICONIP2020, Hong Kong as General Co-chair

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  * **September 12, 2012**.  Irwin King was admitted as **Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers** ([[http://www.hkie.org.hk/|HKIE]]).
  * **June 2012**.  We have been awarded the **Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award** for our paper, titled "Modeling and Exploiting Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks for Expertise Ranking", which was presented at the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ([[http://www.jcdl.org|JCDL]]) in Washington D.C., USA, June 10-14 2012. JCDL is the most influential international conference on digital libraries. A total of 202 papers were received this year for the competition. This paper won the only Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
      * Hongbo Deng, Jiawei Han, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King: Modeling and exploiting heterogeneous bibliographic networks for expertise ranking. JCDL 2012: 71-80
  * **Irwin King**. Irrelevant Data Classification in Semi-supervised Learning for Social Computing Applications, RGC General Research Fund, 2010–2013.

  * ** The BEST Computer Science Department in the Asia/Pacific Region**.  According to [[http://www.arwu.org/SubjectCS2009.jsp|Academic Ranking of World Universities in Computer Science - 2009]], the Department of  Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is ranked 24th in the world in Computer Science, and the BEST in the Asia/Pacific Region.
  * **Top 200 World Universities by Times Higher Education**.  46th ([[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=438|2009]]), 42nd ([[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=243|2008]]), 38th ([[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=144|2007]])
  * **QS World University Rankings**. 42nd ([[http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2010|2010-2011]]), 46th ([[http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009|2009-2010]]), 42nd ([[http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2008|2008-2009]]), 38th ([[http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2008|2007-2008]])
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  * The 4th ACM Web Search and Data Mining ([[http://www.wsdm2011.org|WSDM2011]]):  [[http://www.wsdm2011.org/wsdm2011/cfp|CFP]], paper submission deadline on August 1, 2010. [[http://www.wsdm2011.org|{{  :wsdm2011header.png?700  |}}]]

**The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme.**  If you are interested in doing research in machine learning and social computing, consider [[http://www.rgc.edu.hk/hkpdf|The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme]].  The Fellowship will provide a monthly stipend of HKD $20,000 and a conference and research-related travel allowance of HKD $10,000 per year for a maximum period of three years.  135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded for the 2010/11 academic year.  The Selection Panel will include (but not limit) their evaluation to the four criteria: academic excellence, research ability and potential, communication and interpersonal skills, and leadership abilities.  The deadline is 1 December 2009.

[[  http://www.erg.cuhk.edu.hk/content.php?s=1&sub_id=8&content_id=181&page=1&news_id=85|{{  :nobel2009.png?200|Prof. Charles Kao's Nobel Prize 2009}}]] \\ **Nobel Prize 2009 News!**  Professor Charles K. Kao, our former Vice-Chancellor and founder of Engineering Faculty of CUHK, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication".\\ \\ A brief profile of Professor Kao could be found [[http://www.erg.cuhk.edu.hk/upload/news/Professor_CharlesKao.pdf|here]].\\ 
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**Keynote, Invited Talk, Advisory Committee, Technical Program Committee Member, Reviewer, Panel Chair, Panelist, or Tutorial Speaker at** [[http://www.wcci2010.org/|WCCI2010]], [[http://www2010.org/www/|WWW2010]], [[http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/|DASFAA2010]], [[http://www.sersc.org/FGIT2009/|FGIT2009]], [[http://www.iconip09.org/|ICONIP'09]], [[http://www.collaboratecom.org/|CollaborateCom2009]], [[http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/cikm2009/about/index.asp|CIKM2009]], [[http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/acml09/|ACML'09]], [[http://isccci.org/iccci-09/ |ICCCI'09]], [[http://www.gcoe.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/apsipa2009/|APSIPA ASC 2009]], [[http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/|WI'09]], [[http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/|SocialCom-09]], [[http://sigir2009.org/|SIGIR2009]], [[http://ijcai-09.org/index.html|IJCAI-09]], [[http://www.mirlabs.org/cason09/|CASoN2009]], [[http://www.teihal.gr/iwssip09/index.htm|IWSSIP2009]], [[http://cnd.memphis.edu/ijcnn2009/|IJCNN2009]], [[http://faw2009.hfut.edu.cn/|FAW2009]], [[http://www2009.org|WWW2009]], [[http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/|ICDE2009]], [[http://www.ieee-ssci.org/index.php?q=node/14|CIDM2009]], and [[http://www.ieee-education.org.cn/indexen.html|ECS2009]].
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  * The tutorial presentation at **WWW2009** is available <[[confs:www2009|here]]>!
  * The keynote presentation at **ECS2009** is available <[[:confs:ecs2009|here]]>!
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====== Experiences ======

  * [[http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/irwinking|Visiting Professor]] with [[http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/|School of Information (iSchool)]], [[http://berkeley.edu/|UC Berkeley]] (2011-2012)
  * LMTS, [[http://www.research.att.com/|AT&T Labs Research]], San Francisco (2010-2012)

  * Book Series Editor, [[:smsc|Social Media and Social Computing]], Taylor and Francis (CRC Press)
  * Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data ([[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~tkdd/|ACM TKDD]])
  * Associate Editor of Journal of Neural Networks ([[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neural-networks/|NN]])
  * Editorial Board, [[http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/41060|International Journal of Data Science and Analytics]]
  * Editorial Board, [[http://bdataanalytics.biomedcentral.com|Big Data Analytics]]
  * Former Associate Editor of INNS Natural Intelligence Magazine ([[http://www.inns.org/natural-intelligence-magazine/Default.asp|INNS NIM]])
  * Former Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems ([[http://www.ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/|IEEE TNN]])
  * Vice-President of Membership, Board Member, Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society ([[http://www.inns.org/|INNS]])
  * Vice-President and Board Member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly ([[http://www.apnna.net|APNNA]])
  * Chair, Task Force on the Future Directions of Neural Networks ([[http://www.ieee-cis.org/|IEEE CIS]])
  * Chair, SIG and Regional Chapters Committee for Asia and the Pacific ([[http://www.inns.org|INNS]])
  * Former Member, CIS Outstanding Chapter Award Subcommittee,  ([[http://www.ieee-cis.org/|IEEE CIS]])
  * Former Member of Review Panel of the Natural Science, and Engineering of Academy of Finland
  * Former Member of Review Panel of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  * Former Member of [[http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.htm|RGC Engineering Panel]], The Hong Kong SAR Government
  * Member of Joint Research Scheme ([[http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.htm| JRS]]) Panel under RGC, The Hong Kong SAR Government
  * Principal Investigator, Chief Technologist, and Co-Founder, The [[http://veriguide.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|VeriGuide]] Project, CUHK
  * Member of the Engineering Faculty Board, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  * Member of the Editorial Board, Web Intelligence and Web Science (WIWS), Higher Education Press, China 
  * Kavli Fellow, [[http://www.kavlifoundation.org/kavli-frontiers-science|Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium]], Kavli Foundation
  * Apple's Distinguished Educator

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  * **Special Issue Guest Editor**, [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/projs/tist2011|Twitter and Microblogging Services]], ACM Transactions on Intelligent System and Technology (TIST), 2011-2012
  * **Special Issue Guest Editor**, Web Intelligence, Neurocomputing, 2011
  * **General Chair**, The Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining ([[http://www.wsdm2011.org|WSDM2011]]), February 2011, Hong Kong.
  * **Invited Speaker**, The Moving Target of Mobile User Modeling, UMWA2011 Workshop at WSDM2011, February 9, 2011, Hong Kong.
  * **SPC**, The 3rd Asia Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2011), November 13-15, 2011, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
  * **Vice-Program Chair**, The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS), September 19-21, 2011, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
  * **SPC**, AI and the Web Track, The Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), August 7-11, 2011, San Francisco, USA.
  * **Keynote**, The 6th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT2012), Bangkok, Thailand, October-November, 2012.
  * **General Co-Chair**, The 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining ([[http://www.asonam2012.etu.edu.tr/|ASONAM2012]]), Istanbul, Turkey, August 26-29, 2012.
  * **SPC**, The Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining ([[http://www.wsdm2012.org/|WSDM2012]]), February 9-12, 2011, Seattle, USA.

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  * **Program Co-Chair**, [[http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/index.php|IEEE WIC/ACM International Conference]], August 31-September 3, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  * **Plenary**, The 5th Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering ([[http://iske2010.nit.net.cn/|ISKE2010]]), Hangzhou, China, November 15-16, 2010.
  * **Tutorial Speaker**, [[:confs:ijcnn2010|Basic and Advances in Semi-supervised Learning]], World Congress on Computational Intelligence ([[http://www.wcci2010.org/|WCCI2010, IJCNN2010]]), July 18-23, 2010, Barcelona, Spain [ [[:confs:ijcnn2010|more information]] ]
  * **Tutorial Speaker**, [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/confs/www2010|Introduction to Social Recommendation]], World Wide Web Conference ([[http://www2010.org|WWW2010]]), April 26-30, 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA [ [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/confs/www2010|more information]] ]
  * **Tutorial Speaker**, Database Systems for Advanced Applications ([[http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/|DASFAA2010]]), April 1-4, 2010, Tsukuba, Japan [ [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/confs/dasfaa2010|more information]] ]
  * Former Associate Editor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine ([[http://www.ieee-cis.org/pubs/magazine/|IEEE CIM]])
  * Former Director of International Programmes, Faculty of Engineering ([[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ERGIP|ERGIP]])
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====== Profile ======

Prof. King's research interests include machine learning, social computing, web intelligence, data mining, and multimedia information processing. In these research areas, he has over 210 technical publications in journals (JMLR, ACM TOIS, IEEE TNN, Neurocomputing, NN, IEEE BME, PR, IEEE SMC, JAMC, JASIST, IJPRAI, DSS, etc.) and conferences (NIPS, IJCAI, CIKM, SIGIR, KDD, PAKDD, ICDM, WWW, WI/IAT, WCCI, IJCNN, ICONIP, ICDAR, etc.). In addition, he has contributed over 30 book chapters and edited volumes. Moreover, Prof. King has over 30 research and applied grants. One notable patented system he has developed is the VeriGuide System, previously known as the CUPIDE (Chinese University Plagiarism IDentification Engine) system, which detects similar sentences and performs readability analysis of text-based documents in both English and in Chinese to promote academic integrity and honesty.

Prof. King is the Book Series Editor for "Social Media and Social Computing" with Taylor and Francis (CRC Press).  He is also an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD) and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Open Information Systems Journal, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, and Neural Information Processing–Letters and Reviews Journal (NIP-LR). He has also served as Special Issue Guest Editor for Neurocomputing, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), and International Journal of Computational Intelligent Research (IJCIR). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM, International Neural Network Society (INNS), and Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA). Currently, he is serving the Neural Network Technical Committee (NNTC) and the Data Mining Technical Committee under the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (formerly the IEEE Neural Network Society). He is also a member of the Board of Governors of INNS and a Vice-President and Governing Board Member of APNNA.  He also serves INNS as the Vice-President for Membership in the Board of Governors.  Moreover, he is the General Chair of WSDM2011, General Co-Chair of RecSys2013, and in various capacities in a number of top conferences such as WWW, NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, etc.

Prof. King is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a former Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He had worked at the AT&T Labs Research, San Francisco and was also teaching Social Computing and Data Mining as a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley in early 2010s.  He received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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