Tony Veale (Afflatus.UCD.ie) is an associate professor at UCD, University College Dublin, where his principal research interest is Computational Creativity (CC), specifically focusing on irony, humor, metaphor, simile, blending, analogy, story-telling and comics. He has been a visiting professor at Fudan University, Shanghai and at KAIST, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, and a visiting fellow at the Flemish Academy of Arts and Science. Veale led the European coordination action on Computational Creativity, PROSECCO (Promoting the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity) which worked to develop the field of CC into a mature discipline. He is the author of the 2012 book Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity from Bloomsbury, co-author of the 2016 textbook Metaphor: A Computational Perspective from Morgan Claypool, co-author of the 2018 book Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning from MIT Press, and co-editor of several collected volumes of AI research. Most recently, he is the author of Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor, from MIT Press (2021). He is currently chair of the international Association for Computational Creativity (ACC), and launched the site RobotComix.com to make CC more accessible and engaging for the public.