Curriculum Vitae
Education
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Ph.D. in the Social Sciences (Economics)
Dissertation Committee: Leeat Yariv (Chair), Federico Echenique, Matthew Shum, Matthew Elliott
Sep 2010 - June 2016
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Graduated with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude)
B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Economics
Ranked 1st in the Department of Mathematics
Completed Advanced Program in Mathematics
Mar 2003 - Feb 2009 (Military Service: 2004 - 2007)
Academic Appointments
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea
Associate Professor, College of Business, September 2022 - Present
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Visiting Associate in Economics, August 2022 - August 2023
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea
Assistant Professor, College of Business, August 2018 - August 2022
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, September 2016 - August 2018
Other Appointments
Korea Development Institute (KDI), Sejong City, South Korea
Research Fellow, Department of Competition Policy, 2016
Research Interests
Microeconomics, Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization, Social Networks, and Political Economy
Publications
1. Who Are the Key Players? Listeners vs Spreaders vs Others, 2023, joint with Sumin Kim and Kyu-Min Lee, PLoS ONE 18(5): e0286369.
2. 인공지능 기반 적응형 학습 프로그램 영향평가: 대구 중학교 무작위통제실험 사례를 중심으로, 2022, joint with Booyuel Kim, Yoonsoo Park, Ju-Ho Lee, 응용경제 24권 4호.
3. Collective Proofreading and the Optimal Voting Rule, 2022, joint with Duk Gyoo Kim and Jinhyuk Lee, Global Economic Review Vol 51(1): 1-17.
4. Repairing a Cracked Mirror: The Heterogeneous Effect of Personalized Digital Nudges Driven by Misperception, 2021, joint with Daegon Cho and Miyeon Jung, Production and Operations Management Vol 30(8): 2586-2607.
5. Social Value from Social Enterprise: An Incentive Design, 2021, joint with Jinha Park, Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics Vol 32(2): 54–73.
6. Social Network Formation and Strategic Interaction in Large Networks, 2021, Mathematical Social Sciences Vol 111: 34–54.
7. A Model of Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation, 2019, Games and Economic Behavior Vol 118: 463–485.
8. 효과적인 퇴직연금 상품 운용을 유도하기 위한 행태 경제 실험 설계, 2019, 공저자: Seura Ha, Duk Gyoo Kim, Sang-Hyun Kim, 금융감독연구 제6권 제2호..
9. An Economic Model of Friendship and Enmity for Measuring Social Balance on Networks, 2017, joint with Kyu-Min Lee and Seungil You, Physica A Vol 488: 205–215.
10. Monopoly Pricing and Diffusion of Social Network Goods, 2017, Games and Economic Behavior Vol 102:162–178.
11. How Food Controls Aggression in Drosophila, 2014, joint with DJ Anderson, E Eyjólfsdóttir, RS Lim, and P Perona, PLoS ONE 9(8): e105626.
Working Papers and Work in Progress
1. Optimal Influence Design in Networks (joint with Daeyoung Jeong). - R&R at Journal of Economic Theory
2. Learning to be Homo Economicus: Can an LLM Learn Preferences from Choice Data? (joint with Jeongbin Kim, Matthew Kovach, Kyu-Min Lee, and Hector Tzavellas).
3. Coordination and Cooperation in Cultures with Vertical Age-Based Social Hierarchies (joint with Matthew Chao)
4. Strategic Sophistication and Collective Action: Theory and Evidence (joint with Mimi Jeon, Seonghoon Kim, and Kanghyock Koh).
5. Teaching Practices and Friendship Networks (joint with Syngjoo Choi, Booyuel Kim, Eungik Lee, and Yoonsoo Park).
6. Adaptive Learning and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam (joint with Seura Ha, Booyuel Kim, Yoon Soo Park, Hee-Seung Yang).
7 Pandemic Control in Networks: Three Principles (joint with Keumseok Kang, Yuncheol Kang, and Dae-Ki Min).
8. Robust Intervention in Networks (joint with Daeyoung Jeong and Tongseok Lim).
9. Conforming Based on Seniority and Status (joint with Matthew Chao)
10. Network Bottleneck and Speed of Learning (joint with Jin Huang and Kyu-Min Lee).
11. A Citizen Candidate Model with Public Funding (joint with Jonghyun Park).
12. Rationality and Preference Aggregation of Group Decision under Risk (joint with Syngjoo Choi, Booyuel Kim, Minseon Park, and Yoonsoo Park).
13. A Theory of Electoral Fraud and Voter Turnout (joint with Kirill Pogorelskiy and Kota Saito).
Selected Research Grants, Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards
Award for Excellence in Research, KAIST College of Business (2021)
The Hyung-Gyu Lim LINKGENESIS-Best Teacher Award (2021)
한국연구재단 신진연구자지원사업(인문사회, 2020S1A5A8045042)
한국연구재단 신진연구자지원사업(인문사회, 2019S1A5A8038003)
Caltech Graduate Fellowship (2010 - 2016)
The Korean Methodist Church Scholarship (2014 - 2015)
The Korean Honor Scholarship (2013)
Yonsei International Foundation Award (2011)
Yonsei Alumni Scholarship (2008)
Highest Honors Student of Yonsei University (2007 - 2008)
National Science and Technology Scholarship (2003 - 2007)
Paper Presentations
In 2024: Seoul National University, NGBS Tutorial 2024, KISDI (economic experiments and AI), KISDI (economic experiments and education), Hanyang University, Konkuk University, Korea University, Sogang University, WEAI, Yonsei University (Department of Mathematics), Yonsei University (Department of Applied Statistics), Korean Labor Economic Association, Southern Economic Association.
In 2023: The Eighth Annual Conference on Network Science and Economics (Virginia Tech), Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings 2023 (OH), Florida State University (microeconomics), Florida State University (experimental economics), University of California - Riverside, 2023 Asia-Pacific ESA Meeting, Yonsei University, KDI, Hanyang University, SKKU, KIEP, Korea University.
In 2022: 2022 Asia Pacific ESA meeting, The 7th Conference on Network Science and Economics, The Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series, Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, Korea University, Yonsei University, The 2022 ESA Boston (withdraw), The 2022 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, KBER Summer Workshop (SNU), Korea Empirical Applied Microeconomics Conference (Jeju), Korea Institute of Advanced Study (KIAS), Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, The 92nd Southern Economic Association.
In 2021: Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization), KDI, Korea University, Yonsei University, The 20th Annual SAET Conference, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University, KEA-Ministry of Environment joint workshop, Virginia Tech, Yonsei University (Department of Mathematics), Korean Econometric Society: Microeconomics, Hanyang University.
In 2020: Korea University, Singapore Management University, Yonsei University, Korea Energy Economics Institute, Research Institute of Future Industry.
In 2019: Ewha Womans University, Korea Workshop: Experimental Economics and Development Economics (SNU), Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, 2019 Nanjing International Conference on Theory, Korean Econometric Society: Microeconomics, 한국재정학회 춘계학술대회, Yonsei University, 한국재정정책학회 춘계학술대회, CKJ Workshop.
In 2018: 2018 경제학 교육위원회 심포지움, University of Seoul, KEA-KAEA Joint International Conference (SKKU), Korea Military Academy, Sogang University, Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, KAIST, Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Korean Econometric Society: Microeconomics), Yonsei University, Yonsei University (Department of Public Administration), Yonsei University (Joint Conference on Economics and Psychology).
In 2017: Korea University, Incheon National University (Department of Mathematics), SURE International Conference (Seoul National University), Ewha Womans University, Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization), Western Economic Association International (WEAI, San Diego), Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, Korean Econometric Society: Microeconomics, International Conference on Recent Trends in Economics (SKKU), Kyung Hee University (Department of Political Science & International Relations), Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization), Korea’s Allied Economic Associations Annual Meeting (Korean Econometric Society: Microeconomics).
In 2016: Applying Game Theory to Humanities, Social Science and Natural Science (KIAS), Yonsei University, Applied Economics Conference (SNU), Korean Academic Society of Industrial Organization, The Korean Econometric Society, Microeconomics, Yonsei Young Economist Workshop, UC Riverside, Korea Insurance Research Institute, Kyung Hee University, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Sogang University, Korea Institute of Finance, Korea Economic Research Institute, Korea Development Institute, Korea Institute of Public Finance.
Before 2016: SoCal NEGT Symposium (Lightning Talk, USC, 2015), Korea University (Department of Physics, 2015), Seoul National University (2015), Yonsei University (2015), Handong Global University (2015), The 41st Annual Meeting of the EEA (New York, 2015), SoCal NEGT Symposium (Lightning Talk, Caltech, 2014), The 16th KAEA-KEA International Conference (Yonsei, 2014), The KIET-KAEA Joint Conference (2014), Yonsei University (2014), SoCal NEGT Symposium (Poster, UCLA, 2013), SoCal NEGT Symposium (Poster, USC, 2012), BK 21 Seminar (Yonsei U, 2012), SISL Seminar (Caltech, 2012).
Teaching Experience
1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: Energy and environmental economics, Microeconomics and the environment, Mathematics for management and economics, Microeconomic analysis, Social networks and platform business, Advanced business analytics, Game theory and its applications.
2. Kyung Hee University: Microeconomics (graduate level), Labor economics, Mathematical economics, Microeconomics 2 (environmental economics, PBL class), Economic statistics, Mathematics for economics.
3. California Institute of Technology: Math camp (2011 - 13, 2015).
Non-Academic Experience
1. Legislative Assistant
Legislative Assistant, National Assembly, Republic of Korea, 2007
2. Military Service
Sergeant, Republic of Korea Air Force, 2004 - 2007