Philipp Koehn is a leading researcher in the field of machine translation and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In 2010 he authored the textbook Statistical Machine Translation (Cambridge). He received the Award of Honor from the International Association for Machine Translation and was one of three finalists for the European Inventor Award of the European Patent Office in 2013. Professor Koehn also works actively in industry as Chief Scientist for Omniscien Technology and as a consultant for Facebook.