Christopher Manning is the inaugural Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and an Investment Partner at AIX Ventures. He is an ACM Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, an ACL Fellow, and Past President of the ACL (2015). His research goal is computers that can intelligently process, understand, and generate human language. Manning is the most-cited researcher within NLP, with best paper awards at ACL, Coling, EMNLP, and CHI and well-known work on applying deep neural networks to NLP, including neural machine translation, parsing, sentiment analysis, natural language inference, question answering, and summarization. He founded the Stanford NLP group (@stanfordnlp) and manages development of the Stanford CoreNLP and Stanza software. Manning has coauthored leading textbooks on statistical Natural Language Processing (Manning and Schütze 1999) and information retrieval (Manning, Raghavan, and Schütze, 2008), as well as linguistic monographs. He has a B.A. (Hons) from The Australian National University and a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1994, and he held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Sydney before returning to Stanford.