John Shawe-Taylor obtained a PhD in Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1986. He subsequently completed an MSc in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology at Imperial College. He was promoted to Professor of Computing Science in 1996. He moved to the University of Southampton in 2003 to lead the ISIS research group. He was the Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London from July 2006 till September 2010. From September 2010 till June 2019, he was the Head of Department of Computer Science at UCL. He was appointed UNESCO Chair of Artificial Intelligence at UCL in 2018. He is Director of the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.