Klaus Mueller received a PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University in 1998. He is currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University and he is also a senior scientist at the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Lab. From 2012-2015, Klaus served as the founding chair of the Computer Science Department at SUNY Korea and he was also VP for Academic Affairs and Finance at SUNY Korea for two years. He is presently Interim Chair of the Stony Brook Department of Tech and Society. His current research interests are visual analytics, explainable machine learning and AI, algorithmic fairness and transparency, data science and computational and medical imaging. He won the US National Science Foundation Early Career award in 2001, the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity in 2011, and the Meritorious Service Certificate and the Golden Core Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 2016 and 2023. In 2018 Klaus was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. To date, he has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 13,500 times. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has organized or participated in 18 tutorials on various topics, chaired the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2009, was the elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VGTC) from 2012-2015, and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2019-2022. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.