Malcolm Kring was born in Boulder, CO, USA, in 1990. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree with management from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 2014, both in mechanical engineering. From 2014 to 2017, he worked with Exterity, Dalgety Bay, Scotland. He currently works with Databowl Ltd., Sheffield, U.K., where he uses machine learning to try and get people to click more ads. His research interests include optimization, and artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications to recommendation systems.