Stan Matwin is the Director of the Institute for Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) at the Faculty of Computer Science. He is also a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, and a State Professor at the Institute for Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Stan holds the titles of Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee on AI, and Fellow of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC). He has received the 2019 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 he was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of CS-Can/Info Can, an organization serving as a focal point for Computer Science research and education in Canada. Internationally recognized for his work in text mining, applications of machine learning, and data privacy,he is a member of the Editorial Boards of leading journals in machine learning and data mining. He was the General Chair of KDD 2017 in Halifax, Canada. Stan has authored and co-authored more than 250 refereed papers, and supervised of more than 50 graduate students. He has extensive experience and interest in innovation and technology transfer.