Activities

Membership

• Fellow of the Korean Physical Society, since May 2023

• Founding member of the Asian Network of Complexity Scientists Working Group, since 2022

• Complex Systems Society, 2019-2020

• Lifetime member of the Korea Academy of Complexity Studies, since 2017

• Regular member of the Korean Physical Society, since 2014

Awards and Honors

• Principal Investigator of the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korea government (MSIT), March 2022-February 2026

• Principal Investigator of the Basic Science Research Program through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Education, November 2018-October 2021

• Yong-Bong Prize winner by the Korean Physical Society, 2017

• Participant Researcher of the Korea-Japan international cooperation program managed by the NRF, April 2016-March 2018

• Principal Investigator of the Basic Science Research Program through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Education, November 2015-October 2018

• Visiting Fellow funded by Aalto Science Institute, July 2015

• Certificate of Recognition as a referee for New Journal of Physics, June 2015

• Visiting Researcher funded by Aalto Science Institute, February 2015

• Best award winner for team project at Winter School on Computational Neuroscience, 2010

• Sang-Ae Foundation Fellowship, 1997

• Bronze medalist (Mathematics) at Korea Mathematics and Science Competition for Middle and High School Students, 1992

Referee and Editor

1. Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, New Journal of Physics, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, EPJ Data Science, Physica A, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Journal of Statistical Physics, Journal of Physics A, Journal of Physics D, Journal of Physics Communications, Journal of Physics: Complexity, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, PLoS ONE, Network Science, Applied Network Science, Entropy, Advances in Complex Systems, International Journal of Modern Physics B, Heliyon, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Royal Society Open Science, Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, New Physics: Sae Mulli, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Scientometrics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Frontiers in Physics, Journal of Computational Social Science, Networks and Heterogeneous Media, IEEE Access

2. Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems, since September 2024

3. Review Editor of Frontiers in Physics, since September 2022

4. Editorial Board Member of Complexity (Wiley & Hindawi), May 2021-May 2023

5. Co-guest Editor for Special Issue "Computational Social Science" in Information, 2018-2019

6. Editorial Board Member of PLoS ONE, since August 2018

Organizer of Conferences and Workshops

1. Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Economical, Social, and Ecological Systems (RHINOS 2024), Okinawa, Japan, 8-11 November 2024

2. Co-organizer of the satellite meeting "Collective Phenomena in Complex Systems: Problems Inspired by Ecology and Evolution (CoPhEE2023)" at StatPhys28, Tokyo, Japan, 12-14 August 2023

3. Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Non-equilibrium Collective Dynamics (RHINO 2022), Online & Tokyo, Japan, 16-17 September 2022

4. Member of the organizing committee for The 21st Statistical Physics Workshop, Online, 25-27 August 2021

5. Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Non-equilibrium Collective Dynamics (RHINO 2021), Online & Pohang, Korea, 17-19 August 2021 

6. Co-organizer of The 2nd Workshop on Stochasticity and Fluctuations in Small Systems, Gyeongju, Korea, 25-27 November 2020

7. Co-organizer of The 3rd APCTP Alumni Scientific Symposium, Busan, Korea, 17-18 October 2019

8. Co-organizer of the satellite meeting "Self-organization and complexity in social system" at Conference on Complex Systems, Singapore, 3 October 2019

9. Co-organizer of The 112th Statphys Monthly Meeting, Pohang, Korea, 20-21 September 2019

10. Co-organizer of The 106th Statphys Monthly Meeting, Pohang, Korea, 7-8 September 2018

11. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 6th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 31 May-2 June 2018

12. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 5th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 1-2 November 2017

13. Member of the organizing committee for The 2nd Workshop on Self-Organization and Robustness of Evolving Many-Body Systems, Sapporo, Japan, 8-9 September 2017

14. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 4th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Danyang, Korea, 26-28 May 2017

15. Member of the organizing committee for The 1st Workshop on Self-Organization and Robustness of Evolving Many-Body Systems, Ibaraki, Japan, 27-28 August 2016

16. Chair of the organizing committee for the satellite meeting “Social Connectome: The anatomy of social networks and its modeling” at NetSci2016, Seoul, Korea, 30 May 2016

17. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 3rd International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 27-28 May 2016

18. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 2nd International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 2-4 November 2015

19. Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 1st International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 28-29 January 2015

Member of Advisory Committee

1. KIAS Workshop on Complex Systems and Data Science, Online & Seoul, Korea, 23-25 June 2021

Member of Program Committees

1. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2024), London, UK, 2-6 September 2024

2. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2024), Quebec City, Canada, 16-21 June 2024

3. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Venice, Italy, 22-25 January 2024

4. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2023), Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2023

5. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7-10 February 2023

6. The 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Palermo, Italy, 8-10 November 2022

7. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2022), Shanghai, China, 25-29 July 2022

8. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Porto, Portugal, 8-11 February 2022

9. The 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Madrid, Spain, 30 November-2 December 2021

10. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2021), Lyon, France, 25-29 October 2021

11. The 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Zurich, Switzerland, 27-31 July 2021

12. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2020), Online, 4-11 December 2020

13. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2020), Rome, Italy, 17-25 September 2020

14. The 10th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2020), Nashua, NH, USA, 27-31 July 2020

15. The 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Cambridge, MA, USA, 17-20 July 2020

16. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Tokyo, Japan, 20-23 January 2020

17. The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 December 2019

18. The 11th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2019), Doha, Qatar, 18-21 November 2019

19. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2019), Singapore, 30 September-4 October 2019

20. The 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 17-20 July 2019

21. The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 December 2018

22. The 10th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2018), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 25-28 September 2018

23. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-28 September 2018

24. The 9th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2018), Cambridge, MA, USA, 22-27 July 2018

25. The 4th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Evanston, IL, USA, 12-15 June 2018

26. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2018), Paris, France, 11-15 June 2018

27. International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Hangzhou, China, 5-8 January 2018

28. The 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Lyon, France, 29 November-1 December 2017

29. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS), Cancun, Mexico, 17-22 September 2017 

30. The 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2017), Oxford, UK, 13-15 September 2017

31. The 2nd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Evanston, IL, USA, 22-26 June 2016

32. International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015