Biography:Irwin King

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Irwin King
Born
CitizenshipChinese (Hong Kong)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsChinese University of Hong Kong

Irwin King is a Hong Kong computer scientist known for his contributions to machine learning, social computing, and recommender systems.[1]

Career

King is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[2] His research focuses on machine learning and social computing, including work on social recommendation, trust-aware recommender systems, and graph-based learning.[3]

King has served as editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).[4]

Awards

  1. ACM Fellow (2024)[5]
  2. IEEE Fellow (2019)[6]
  3. INNS Fellow (2021)[7]
  4. AAIA Fellow (2022)[8]
  5. HKIE Fellow[9]
  6. ACM WSDM Test of Time Award (2022)[10]
  7. ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award (2020)[11]
  8. ACM CIKM Test of Time Award (2019)[12]
  9. 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award for work in Neural Engineering for Social Computing[13]
  10. 2020 APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award[14]

References

  1. ↑ Ma, Hao; Yang, Haixuan; Lyu, Michael R.; King, Irwin (2008). "SoRec: Social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization". Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management. pp. 931–940. doi:10.1145/1458082.1458205. ISBN 978-1-59593-991-3. 
  2. ↑ "Irwin King". Chinese University of Hong Kong. https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king/. 
  3. ↑ Ma, Hao; Zhou, Dengyong; Liu, Chao; Lyu, Michael R.; King, Irwin (2011). "Recommender systems with social regularization". Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining. pp. 287–296. doi:10.1145/1935826.1935877. ISBN 978-1-4503-0493-1. 
  4. ↑ "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology". ACM. https://dl.acm.org/journal/tist. 
  5. ↑ "2024 ACM Fellows Celebrated for transformative contributions to computing science and technology." (in en). https://www.acm.org/media-center/2025/january/fellows-2024. 
  6. ↑ "IEEE Fellows Directory - Member Profile". https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/getdetailprofile.html?custNum=M4TAgAKy8q9lQfv2rb8W5A. 
  7. ↑ "Fellows and Senior Members". https://www.inns.org/fellows-senior-members. 
  8. ↑ "Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association". https://www.aaia-ai.org/fellows?words=irwin%20king. 
  9. ↑ "Standing Committees | HKIE". https://www.hkie.org.hk/en/discover/committee/. 
  10. ↑ "WSDM Test of Time Award" (in en-US). 2022-01-27. https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/timetable/event/wsdm-awards-program-test-of-time-presentation/. 
  11. ↑ "SIGIR 2020" (in en). https://sigir.org/sigir2020/awards/. 
  12. ↑ "CIKM Test of Time Award". http://www.cikmconference.org/cikmToTA.html. 
  13. ↑ "Prof. Irwin King Awarded the 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award – CUHK CSE" (in en-US). https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/news/achievements/irwin-king-2021-inns-dennis-gabor-award/. 
  14. ↑ "Awards" (in en-US). https://www.apnns.org/awards/.