Sujin Choi

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film, College of Communication, Texas, U.S.

• M.A., Indiana University, Department of Telecommunications, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.

• M.A., Yonsei University, Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Seoul, Korea 

• B.A., Yonsei University, Department of Public Administration, College of Social Science, Seoul, Korea

TEACHING 

Undergraduate level

• Social Network and Social Mining 

network analysis, digital trace data, communication theory

•  Social Data Programming 

programming language, data crawling/scraping, data analysis/ interpretation

•  Public Opinion and Media

digital journalism, news users, news algorithm

•  Capstone Design 

project-based learning, industry-university cooperation 

(internship opportunity offered)

•  AI and Curation

curated flows, AI models, LLM, text analysis

Graduate level

•  Computer-Mediated Communication 

communication theory, computational communication

•  Social Data Analytics 

social network analysis, neural network analysis, digital trace data, big data

WHAT'S NEW?

• Choi, S. (In press). From personalized news curation to shared issue concerns in fragmentation era: A dynamic network approach by levels of issue involvement. Information, Communication & Society

• Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (June ~ November 2025)

• Grant recipient for Basic Research in Science & Engineering funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (한국연구재단 과학기술분야 기초연구사업) (단독), $310,000 (May 2024~April 2027)

• Invited Speaker at  the Digital Trust in Media & Information Event held by the Swiss Embassy in Korea (주한 스위스대사관 초청강연) (May 22, 2024)

• Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea (한국연구재단 우수성과 50선(이공계/인문사회계 통합)  선정으로 인한 교육부 장관상) (2023)

• Annual Research Award, Kyung Hee University(경희대 연구우수교원) (2023)

IN THE MEDIA

• Research spotlight 

  • <Korea Times> Korean media scholar calls for 'bias literacy' in digital news consumption (Sept 19, 2024)

  • <뉴시스>, <한겨레> 등: 경희대 최수진 교수, 사회과학/기술 융합연구로 이공계 연구사업 선정 (July 8, 2024)

  • 경희대 포커스: 사회과학의 문제의식, 기술과 융합연구로 과학기술분야 연구사업 선정 (July 12, 2024)

  • 경희대 포커스: 2023년 교육부 학술연구지원사업 우수성과 선정. 일반시민의 기사평가 정보처리 메커니즘 규명 (Feb. 19, 2024)

• Media appearance 

  • JTBC TV Broadcaster <Viewers' Council (시청자의회)> member (Oct 27, 2024~)

  • Panelist on Arirang TV's <The Round Table> program (also on YouTube) (Mar 5~Aug 27, 2024)