Sukyoung Ryu is a Professor in the School of Computing at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She received her BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from KAIST, and worked at Sun Microsystems and Harvard University before joining KAIST. Her primary research interests include programming languages, software engineering, and information security. She received research awards from Google and Sun Microsystems, and Distinguished Paper Awards from ACM SIGSOFT. She has served as Program Committee Chairs and General Chairs in conferences in the Programming Language and Software Engineering communities. She served as an associate editor of IEEE TSE and a member of ACM SIGPLAN EC, and she is currently a co-Chair of ACM SIGPLAN CARES and the Head of the School of Computing, KAIST.