Bio
Hongbo Zhang currently serves as the Chair Scientist and Department Head of Digital Infrastructure Innovation at IDEA(www.idea.edu.cn/research/dii.html). In this role, he is leading the development of the MoonBit Platform(www.moonbitlang.com). He is most known as the author of the ReScript programming language, formerly known as ReasonML and BuckleScript. Zhang received his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also undertook doctoral studies as an active member of the esteemed Programming Language Club (PLClub). His transition from academia to the corporate world was marked by a special invitation from Bloomberg LP(2014-2017). There, he played the chief role in the development of BuckleScript. In 2017, he accepted an invitation from Facebook to continue his groundbreaking work on BuckleScript, which subsequently evolved into the ReScript programming language.He also contributed to the development of another programming language at Facebook (Meta), Flow.