Zhi-Hua Zhou is a leading expert on machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is currently a Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, and the founding director of the LAMDA Group at Nanjing University, China. Prof. Zhou has authored the books "Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms" (2012) and "Machine Learning" (in Chinese, 2016), and published more than 200 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences. He founded the ACML (Asian Conference on Machine Learning), and served as chairperson for many prestigious conferences, including AAAI 2019 program chair, ICDM 2016 general chair, IJCAI 2015 machine learning track chair, and area chair for NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, etc. He is editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Computer Science, and has been an associate editor for prestigious journals such as the Machine Learning journal and IEEE PAMI. He is a Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IEEE, IAPR, IET/IEE, CCF and CAAI, and recipient of numerous awards, including the National Natural Science Award of China and the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.