Hongyin Tao is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA and holds an honorary Distinguished Chair Professorship at National Taiwan Normal University. In 2022, he was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair. His recent work focuses on interactional linguistics, particularly multimodal interaction, with a related interest in developing L2 interactional competence. He serves on more than 30 editorial boards, including Chinese Language and Discourse and Interactional Linguistics.