Dr. WANG Hongning is now an associated professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was the Copenhaver Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 2014. His research generally lies in the intersection among machine learning, data mining and information retrieval, with a special focus on developing machine learning methods with a strong theoretical foundation and practical performance to address real-world decision-making problems. His work has generated over 120 research papers in top venues in data mining and information retrieval areas. He is a recipient of 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2020 Google Faculty Research Award, SIGIR' 2019 Best Paper Award and 2023 British Computer Society Karen Spärck Jones Award.