Professor Seung Yeal Ha is a professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University in Korea since 2003. He was born in Jeonju of Jeonbuk Province on April 1st of 1971. He received a B.S. degree with Summa cum Laude from Seoul National University in 1997 and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2001. After two and half year post-doc experience at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison right after his Ph.D., he has been working for Seoul National University. Ha’s primary research interests are applied nonlinear analysis such as hyperbolic conservation laws, the kinetic theory of gases and collective dynamics of many-body interacting systems, application of flocking theory to finance and sociology. To date, he has written more than three hundred research papers. He has received numerous honors and awards including 14th Presidential Young Scientist Award in 2010, 17th Korea Science Prize in 2017 and KSIAM-Kumkok prize in 2023. He has given several distinguished lectures in the past such as a plenary talk at 1st AMC(Asian Mathematics Conference) in 2013, and invited talk at ICM 2014 in Seoul, and a plenary talk at HYP 2014 (the largest conference in the hyperbolic problems) and keynote lecture at 32nd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics in 2022. He is currently a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.