Dr. Victor S. Sheng is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University and the founding director of the Data Analytics Lab (DAL). He received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Western University, Ontario, Canada, in 2007. He was an Associate Research Scientist and a NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow in information systems with the Stern Business School, New York University, after he obtained the Ph.D. degree. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, crowdsourcing, and related applications in business, industry, medical informatics, and software engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE and a lifetime member of ACM, as well as an SPC and PC member for many international conferences. He received the Test-of-Time Award for research from KDD 2020, the Best Paper Award Runner-Up from KDD 2008, and the Best Paper Award from ICDM 2011.