He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2010. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, computational biology, and brain data analytics. Shuiwang Ji received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2014. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and BMC Bioinformatics. He was a program chair for the 2017 Bioimage Informatics conference and serves as a senior program committee member for IJCAI, KDD, and SDM. He has served as a technical program committee member of major conferences in machine learning (ICML, NIPS), data mining (KDD, SDM, ICDM), and bioinformatics and medical image computing (MICCAI and PSB).