Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Submitted papers: 'Stick-Breaking Mixture Normalizing Flows with Component-Wise Tail Adaptation for Variational Inference' and several others
- - Accepted for publication: 'A Spatio-Temporal Dirichlet Process Mixture Model on Linear Networks for Crime Data' and several others
- - Published papers: 'Dynamic Interactions of COVID-19 Incidences, Mobility, and Social Distancing Policies in Seoul: A VAR Model Approach' and several others
Research Experience
- - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Sep 2024 - present
- - Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, July 2022 - Aug 2024
- - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, August 2016 - June 2022
Education
- - Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, August 2014 - July 2016 (mentored by Dr. Michael L. Stein and co-mentored by Dr. Elisabeth J. Moyer)
- - Ph.D. in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 2014 (Thesis: Climate model calibration using high-dimensional and non-Gaussian spatial data; Advisors: Dr. Murali Haran and Dr. Klaus Keller)
- - M.S. in Statistics, Korea University, 2009 (Thesis: Estimating volatility and distribution of European option prices using Bayesian UHF GARCH-M model; Advisor: Dr. Yousung Park)
- - B.S. in Statistics, Korea University, 2007
Background
- Research Interests: Uncertainty quantification for computer model experiments using deep learning and Gaussian processes, spatial data analysis for various fields of application including atmospheric science, hydrology, and genetics.