Hongseok Yang is a full professor at the School of Computing, KAIST, Korea. His research area is programming languages, but he mostly works on problems that arise at the boundaries between programming languages and other areas, such as machine learning, statistics, probability theory and distributed systems. He is currently excited about probabilistic programming, the idea of developing a programming language and its system for writing and using advanced machine learning models effectively.He is a co-winner of the 2016 CAV award,received a distinguished paper award in PLDI 2014 and a best paper award in CONCUR 2012, and held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship from 2007 until 2012.