Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. He is a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE, cited for leadership in digital libraries and information retrieval. He is an inaugural inductee to the ACM SIGIR Academy, class of 2020. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science, and by courtesy, of ECE. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. He was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and was Chair (now a member) of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Steering Committee. He served on the IEEE Thesaurus Editorial Board, and was Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Since 2018 he has served as Chief Technology Officer for Mayfair Group LLC, a startup in the legal and insurance fields. He works in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, machine learning/AI, computational linguistics (NLP), hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computing education, electronic publishing, and expert systems. In these areas, he has participated in, organized, presented, and/or reviewed for hundreds of conferences and workshops. 137 grants have funded his research. He has (co)supervised through completion over 85 doctoral or masters students.