Dr Lan Du is an Associate Professor in Data Science and AI at Monash University, Australia, and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests are centred on the intersection of machine/deep learning and natural language processing, with a particular focus on active learning, uncertainty estimation, multiview/multimodal learning, and knowledge distillation. He is also interested in exploring their applications in diverse domains, including public health, marketing, and Biochemistry. He has published more than 100 high-quality research papers in almost all top conferences/journals in machine learning, natural language processing, and data mining, including NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, TPAMI, IJCV, TMM, and TNNLS. He has been serving as an editorial board member of the Machine Learning journal, ACM transaction on Probabilistic Machine learning, and Big Data Research, an area chair of the AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and a program committee member/reviewer of all the top-tier conferences in machine learning and natural language processing. As a chief investigator, he has successfully secured three government grants, which include one NHMRC Ideas Grant, one ARC DP Grant, and one MRFF Grant. The total research funding secured amounts to AUD 5M.