Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics from Arizona State University and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. From 1988 to 1998, he served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests cover computing, statistics, cognition, biology, and social sciences. Professor Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of the first World Association of Top Scientists (WLA) award in 2022. He has also received the Ulf Grund Award from the American Mathematical Society (2021), the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2020), the IJCAI Research Excellence Award (2016), the David E. Rumelhart Award (2015), and the Allen Newell Award from ACM/AAAI (2009). He also gave lectures on IMS Grace Wahba, Neyman, and IMS Medallion in 2022, 2011, and 2004, respectively. He also served as a keynote speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2016, Professor Jordan was named the "Most Influential Computer Scientist" globally in an article published in the journal Science, based on rankings from semantic scholar search engines. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IMS Fellow, and AAAS Fellow.