Wlodek W Zadrozny is a p[rofessor at the College of Computing and Informatics. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2013, after a 27-year career at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He earned his PhD in mathematics (with distinction) from the Polish Academy of Science. At IBM, from 2008 to 2013, he was responsible for textual resources in the Watson project, on the Jeopardy! playing machine. For his work, he received the 2013 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize (together with the Watson team). He was also the technical leader in building the first application of Watson (for customer care). As a scientist at IBM Research, he led and contributed to a wide range of projects. They included a semantic search application for sales professionals, natural language dialogue systems applied in banking and web sales, and a value net analysis of intangible assets. He is also a recipient of the A. von Humboldt Fellowship and M. Waclawek Prize. His research focuses on natural language understanding and its applications.