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
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
Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems, since September 2024
Review Editor of Frontiers in Physics, since September 2022
Editorial Board Member of Complexity (Wiley & Hindawi), May 2021-May 2023
Co-guest Editor for Special Issue "Computational Social Science" in Information, 2018-2019
Editorial Board Member of PLoS ONE, since August 2018
Organizer of Conferences and Workshops
Co-organizer of APCTP Workshop on the Roles of Heterogeneity in Nonequilibrium (RHINO 2025), Busan, Korea, 29 August-1 September 2025
Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Economical, Social, and Ecological Systems (RHINOS 2024), Okinawa, Japan, 8-11 November 2024
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
Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Non-equilibrium Collective Dynamics (RHINO 2022), Online & Tokyo, Japan, 16-17 September 2022
Member of the organizing committee for The 21st Statistical Physics Workshop, Online, 25-27 August 2021
Co-organizer of Roles of Heterogeneity in Non-equilibrium Collective Dynamics (RHINO 2021), Online & Pohang, Korea, 17-19 August 2021
Co-organizer of The 2nd Workshop on Stochasticity and Fluctuations in Small Systems, Gyeongju, Korea, 25-27 November 2020
Co-organizer of The 3rd APCTP Alumni Scientific Symposium, Busan, Korea, 17-18 October 2019
Co-organizer of the satellite meeting "Self-organization and complexity in social system" at Conference on Complex Systems, Singapore, 3 October 2019
Co-organizer of The 112th Statphys Monthly Meeting, Pohang, Korea, 20-21 September 2019
Co-organizer of The 106th Statphys Monthly Meeting, Pohang, Korea, 7-8 September 2018
Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 6th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 31 May-2 June 2018
Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 5th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 1-2 November 2017
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
Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 4th International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Danyang, Korea, 26-28 May 2017
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
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
Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 3rd International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 27-28 May 2016
Co-chair of the organizing committee for The 2nd International Workshop on Physics of Social Complexity (PoSCo), Pohang, Korea, 2-4 November 2015
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
KIAS Workshop on Complex Systems and Data Science, Online & Seoul, Korea, 23-25 June 2021
Member of Program Committees
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Auckland, New Zealand, 17-20 February 2026
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2025), Siena, Italy, 1-5 September 2025
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2025), Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2-6 June 2025
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2024), London, UK, 2-6 September 2024
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2024), Quebec City, Canada, 16-21 June 2024
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Venice, Italy, 22-25 January 2024
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2023), Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2023
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7-10 February 2023
The 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Palermo, Italy, 8-10 November 2022
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2022), Shanghai, China, 25-29 July 2022
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Porto, Portugal, 8-11 February 2022
The 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Madrid, Spain, 30 November-2 December 2021
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2021), Lyon, France, 25-29 October 2021
The 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Zurich, Switzerland, 27-31 July 2021
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2020), Online, 4-11 December 2020
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2020), Rome, Italy, 17-25 September 2020
The 10th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2020), Nashua, NH, USA, 27-31 July 2020
The 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Cambridge, MA, USA, 17-20 July 2020
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Tokyo, Japan, 20-23 January 2020
The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 December 2019
The 11th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2019), Doha, Qatar, 18-21 November 2019
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2019), Singapore, 30 September-4 October 2019
The 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 17-20 July 2019
The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 December 2018
The 10th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2018), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 25-28 September 2018
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-28 September 2018
The 9th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2018), Cambridge, MA, USA, 22-27 July 2018
The 4th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Evanston, IL, USA, 12-15 June 2018
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2018), Paris, France, 11-15 June 2018
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X), Hangzhou, China, 5-8 January 2018
The 6th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Lyon, France, 29 November-1 December 2017
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS), Cancun, Mexico, 17-22 September 2017
The 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2017), Oxford, UK, 13-15 September 2017
The 2nd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Evanston, IL, USA, 22-26 June 2016
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015