Chirag Shah is Professor of Information and Computer Science at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. He is the Founding Director for InfoSeeking Lab and Founding Co-Director of Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE). His research focuses on building, auditing, and correcting agentic information access systems. Shah is a Distinguished Member of ACM as well as ASIS&T, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles and authored nine books, including textbooks on data science and machine learning as well as a recent general audience book titled 'Agent Nation -- How Autonomous AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Society―and What We Can Do About It' . He works closely with industrial research labs on cutting-edge problems, typically as a visiting researcher. The most recent engagements include Amazon, ByteDance, Getty Images, Microsoft Research, and Spotify.