Ming-Feng Tsai is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Chengchi University. In 2006, he was at Microsoft Research Asia as an intern with the Web Search & Mining Group, and was awarded by the research institution the Best Intern of the Year, and invited to visit the headquarters of Microsoft and Bill Gates’ house in Redmond. He received his Ph.D. degree from National Taiwan University in 2009. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he worked at National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow, participating in a research project related to machine translation. In 2010, sponsored by Taiwan National Science Council, he joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting scientist, working on the projects associated with advanced Web search and mining. His research interests span the areas of information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence.