- Name: Moojoong Ra (Family name: Ra)
- Email: moojoong.ra at gatech dot edu
- Homepage: http://moojoong.info
- Interest:
- Financial Statistics
- Empirical Asset Pricing
- Pricing Methodology
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EDUCATION
- Finance, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA (Oct. 2008 - Current)
Graduate Researcher, Advisor: Professor Lee, Suzanne, Ph.D.
- Conducted research on extreme volatility (jump) and jump correlation in financial market
- Development of data process program for stock market prices
- Used C++ MFC language on Windows XP
- Refer: Jump Correlation
- High Speed Nanoelectronics Lab., KAIST Daejeon, Korea (Jun. - Dec. 2004)
Undergraduate Researcher, Advisor: Professor Yang, Kyoung-Hoon, Ph.D.
- Conducted research on High Speed and Structure of DFF using HBT & HEMT
- Refer: DFF
- Robot Intelligence Technology Lab.,KAIST Daejeon, Korea (Sep. – Dec. 2004)
Undergraduate Researcher, Advisor: Professor Kim, Jong-Hwan, Ph.D.
- Conducted research on robot control systems
- Development of robot control systems for 5vs5 MiroSot Games
- Used Micro-controller 8051 as a main controller
- Used C++ language on Windows XP
- Refer: Robot Soccer
- STAR-FLOWER (Astronomy), Gyeonggi Science High School Suwon, Korea (Mar. 1999 – Feb. 2001)
Student Researcher, Advisor: Lee, Suk-Hyoung, MS
- Conducted research on the relation between luminous sources of society and the visibility of start clusters
- Conducted research on the brightness magnitude of nebulas and cluster
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EMPLOYMENTS AND WORK EXPERIMENT
- Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, USA (Jan. 2009 - Current)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Theoretical Statistics (Fall 2009), Instructor: Professor Mei, Yajun, Ph.D.
- Probability with Applications (Spring 2009), Instructor: Professor Mei, Yajun, Ph.D.
- Piolink, Inc. Seoul, Korea (Jun. 2006 - May. 2008)
Research Engineer, Research & Development Division
- Development of architectures of Switching system including 10 Gigabit ports as a Government Project
- Used PADS-Designer and Mentor on Windows XP
- Used Xilinx Programmable Logic Device (PLD) as a controller
- Development of high performance Ethernet devices
- Designed architectures using BCM 1125, BCM 1250 and MPC 8245 CPUs as a main processor
- Used Xilinx Programmable Logic Device (PLD) as a controller
- Development of Quality Control System (QC System)
- Used PADS-Designer and PowerPCB on Windows XP
- Refer: PAS3000GR, WEBFRONT
- Jinyoung Precision Machine Co. Ltd. Incheon, Korea (Jan. 2005 – Jun. 2006)
Research Engineer, Research & Development Division
- Development of a USB device driver and a module controller
- Used Cypress-7C1019CV33 as a main processor
- Used C++ language on Windows 2000
- Development of a numerical processor
- Used Digital Signal Processor (DSP) board including TI (Texas Instruments) TMS320C6711
- Used C language on Windows 2000
- Development of a motion controller
- Used Delta Tau-PMAC (Motor Controller)
- Development of a Computer Numerical Control(CNC) machine controller
- Used C++ MFC language on Windows XP
- Refer: JW60B & JW35
- Jinyoung Precision Machine Co. Ltd. Incheon, Korea (Jun. 2004 – Aug. 2004)
Junior Research Engineer, Research & Development Division
- Development of a USB device driver and a module controller
- Used Cypress-7C1019CV33 as a main processor
- Used C++ language on Windows 2000
- Private Tutoring Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2001 – Dec. 2004)
Instructor, Gifted Youths Classes for Mathematics
- Taught over 20 students for Korea Olympiads in Mathematics
- Result of National Olympiads : 1 Gold Prize, 1 Bronze prize
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ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
- Samsung Scholarship (Nov. 2009)
- granted full tuition scholarship with stipend for graduate studies (annually $50,000, 2010-2015)
- Honor of Summa cum Laude, KAIST (Feb. 2005)
- granted by President Robert B. Laughlin, Ph.D. in recognition of my outstanding academic achievement
- Ministry of Science and Engineering Scholarship, KAIST (Mar. 2001 - Feb. 2005)
- granted by Government including full tuition, fee and stipends
- Entrance Scholarship, KAIST (Mar. 2001)
- granted by President Duk-In Choi, Ph.D. in recognition of my outstanding academic achievement
- Diploma of Excellence, The 3rd Korea Olympiad in Mathematics (Aug. 2000)
- hosted by Ministry of Korea Society of Mathematical Education
- Bronze Prize, The 2nd Korea Olympiad in Mathematics (Jul. 2000)
- hosted by Korea University
- Bronze Prize, The 12th Korea Olympiad in Mathematics (Jul. 2000)
- hosted by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education
- 1st level, The 2nd Korea Mathematics Competition (Jun. 2000)
- hosted by Korea Society of Mathematical Education
- 1st level, The 1st Korea Mathematics Competition (Jun. 1999)
- hosted by Korea Society of Mathematical Education
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EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
- Ski and Snowboard Group in KAIST (KAKI) Daejeon, Korea (Mar. 2001 – Feb. 2005)
Chief Director, Snowboard Team
- Instructed the snowboard team as a training director
- Pop Corus Music Group in KAIST (MUSE) Daejeon, Korea (Mar. 2001 – Dec. 2004)
Director, Department of Drum
- Made concerts over 8 times as a singer and a drummer
- Astronomy Group in KAIST Daejeon, Korea (Mar. 2001 – Dec. 2004)
Member
- Participated in semiannual workshop
- Flower Village (Welfare facilities for challenged people): KkotDongNae Eumsung, Korea (Feb. 2001)
Volunteer
- Volunteer at intensive care unit for old people
- Broadcast Interviewee Seoul, Korea (Oct. 2004)
IntervieweeAppeared in Robot Soccer Competition aired by KBS TV
- Language
- Korean: Native Language
- English: Fluent in writing, listening, translation, reading, and speaking (GRE 680/800/4.0)
- German: Attended basic level course. Reading and writing basic sentences
- Computing
- Proficient and confident in all mathematics software (MATLAB, SAS, Minitab, Maple, R)
- Proficient and confident in all programming languages (C, C++ MFC, Verilog, VHDL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Java, LaTeX)
- Proficient and confident in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- Proficient and confident in all CAD software (Cadence, OrCAD, Multisim, Mentor, PowerPCB, PADs Designer)
- Proficient and confident in all graphic software (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Proficient and confident in all server platform (MS-SQL, MySQL, Apache Web Servers)
- Licenses
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