Lexing Xie is Professor of Computer Science at the Australian National University, she directs the ANU Computational Media lab (http://cm.cecs.anu.edu.au) and the Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge (https://hmi.anu.edu.au). Her research interests are in machine learning, optimisation, and social media. Of particular interest are stochastic point process models, neural networks for sequences and networks, applied problems such as modeling popularity in social media, vision and language, and human and machine decision making. Her research is supported by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Data61, Data to Decisions CRC and the Australian Research Council. Lexing received the 2018 Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research, her research has received seven best student paper and best paper awards in ACM and IEEE conferences between 2002 and 2019. She was IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer 2016-2017. She served as inaugural editor-in-chief of AAAI ICWSM (Intl. Conf. on Web and Social Media), associate editor of ACM Journal of Responsible Computing, ACM Trans. of Information Systems, ACM TiiS and PeerJ Computer Science. She was research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York, and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. She received B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, all in Electrical Engineering.