Raymond Ng is the Canada Research Chair on data science and analytics. He is also the founding Director of the UBC Data Science Institute, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2022 and 2023, he was named as one of the world’s top-75 academic data science leaders by the MIT-based CDO magazine. Ng’s main research area for the past three decades is on data mining, with a specific focus on health informatics and text mining. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed publications on data clustering, outlier detection, OLAP processing, health informatics and text mining. He is the recipient of two best paper awards – from the 2001 ACM SIGKDD conference, the premier data mining conference in the world, and the 2005 ACM SIGMOD conference, one of the top database conferences worldwide. For the past decade, he has co-led several large-scale genomic projects funded by Genome Canada, Genome BC and industrial collaborators. (H-index 72; total citations 37,000+).