Pedro Domingos is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He received a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, and is the author or co-author of over 80 technical publications in the fields of large-scale machine learning, probabilistic learning, model ensembles, model selection, cost-sensitive learning, multistrategy learning, adaptive user interfaces, Web search, data integration, anytime reasoning, computer graphics, and others. He is associate editor of JAIR, a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, and a co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society. He is program co-chair of KDD-2003, and has served on numerous program committees. He has received several awards, including an NSF CAREER award, a Fulbright scholarship, an IBM Faculty Award, and best paper awards at KDD-98 and KDD-99.