Publication in Journal of KIISE, 2022: 'Information collection of COVID-19 pandemic using Wikipedia template network'
Publication in Scientific Reports, 2021: 'The small-world network of global protests'
Publication in Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021: 'Information flow on COVID-19 over Wikipedia: A case study of 11 languages'
Publication in EPJ Data Science, 2021: 'Urban green space and happiness in developed countries'
Publication in Applied Network Science, 2021: 'Social mobilization and polarization can create volatility in COVID-19 pandemic control'
Publication in Science Advances, 2020: 'The universal pathway to innovative urban economies'
Publication in PLoS ONE, 2019: 'Gravity model explained by the radiation model on a population landscape'
Publication in PLoS ONE, 2019: 'Measuring national capability over big science’s multidisciplinarity: A case study of nuclear fusion research'
Preprint on arXiv, 2023: 'Multiple gravity laws for human mobility within cities'
Preprint on medRxiv, 2022: 'Assessing the epidemic impact of protests during the COVID-19 pandemic'
Preprint on arXiv, 2020: 'Impossible by Conventional Means: Ten Years on from the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge'
Young Statistical Physicist Award, The Korean Physical Society, Apr 2021
Best Paper Award, Korea Computer Congress 2021, Jun 2021
Excellent Poster Presentation Award, 2017 Korean Physics Society
Research Experience
Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University, Korea, Mar 2023 - Present
Associate Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, Mar 2020 - Feb 2023
Visiting Researcher, Seoul Institute of Technology, Korea, Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Korea, Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management & Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, USA, Oct 2017 - Aug 2018 (Supervisor: Hyejin Youn)
Background
I am an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Data Science, Chonnam National University, Korea and leading Computational Social Science and Complex Systems Lab (CSL). My research focuses on understanding society through data science and complex systems methods, with particular interests in urban data science, human mobility, social impact of AI, and application of natural language processing.