Curriculum Vitae

The full version of my CV is available here.

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University
September 2025 - Current

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics
Seoul National University
September 2020 - August 2025
  • Dissertation: Dimension Reduction and Feature Extraction of Graph-Valued Data
  • Advisor: Prof. Hee-Seok Oh
B.S. in Statistics
Seoul National University
March 2014 - February 2020

Grants and Funding

Young Scientist Grants Type A
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
2026 - 2029
  • Project: Extended frameworks for graph-valued data analysis
  • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Autonomous Core Research Institute Program Young Scientist Research
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) / IIBS, Soongsil University
2026 - 2027
  • Project: Dimensionality reduction for multivariate graph-indexed data
  • Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
New Faculty Research Support
Soongsil University
2025 - 2026
  • Project: Statistical analysis of multivariate graph-valued data
  • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Autonomous Core Research Institute Program Seed Research
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) / IIBS, Soongsil University
2025 - 2026
  • Project: Factor modeling for multivariate graph-valued data
  • Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
Research Subsidies for Ph.D. Candidates
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
2024 - 2025
  • Project: Spectral analysis of graph-valued data
  • Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Awards and Honors

Scholarship for Next Generation Scholars in Fundamental Science
Seoul National University
2021, 2024, 2025
4th Prize in Extreme Value Analysis 2025 Data Competition
2025
KISS Outstanding Student Paper Awards
Korean International Statistical Society (KISS)
2025
IMS ICSDS Student Travel Awards
IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science
2024
Best Student Oral Presentation Award (1st Prize)
Korean Statistical Society Conference (Winter)
2024
Best Student Oral Presentation Award (3rd Prize)
Korean Statistical Society Conference (Summer)
2024
Outstanding Research Talent Fellowship
BK21 FOUR, Seoul National University
2022 - 2023
Best Student Oral Presentation Award (4th Prize)
Korean Statistical Society Conference (Summer)
2023
2nd Prize in Extreme Value Analysis Data Competition
2023
Best Student Oral Presentation Award (4th Prize)
Korean Statistical Society Conference (Summer)
2022
Excellent Teaching Assistant Award (Course Title: The World of Uncertainty and Statistics)
Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University
2021
Scholarship for Graduate Student Instructor
College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University
2020
National Scholarship for Science and Engineering
Korea Student Aid Foundation
2014-2017, 2019
Top 30 Teams, NAVER AI Vision Hackathon
2018
Army Chief of Staff Award
Ministry of Defense Start-up Challenge
2018
Dean’s List
2014-2017
Bronze Medal, Collegiate Mathematics Competition
2014
Silver Medal, Korean Mathematics Olympiad
2012