Dr. Chris North is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, USA. He is Associate Director of the Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics (https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu), core member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (https://hci.icat.vt.edu), leads the Visual Analytics research group (http://infovis.cs.vt.edu), and was principle architect of the GigaPixel Display Laboratory. There he graduated 20 PhD students, was awarded over $17M in grants, and co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yBZ7vtkAAAAJ) with h-index=59. As a leader in data science education at Virginia Tech, he founded the Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics and co-organized the Computation Modeling and Data Analytics undergraduate major. He has also served the community as General Co-Chair of IEEE VIS, and as Papers Co-Chair of the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conferences. His research and education agenda seeks to enable effective human-AI interaction in immersive analytics environments. For over two decades, he has led efforts to design and evaluate usability of large and immersive display spaces for interactive visualization and text analytics in data science.