Curriculum Vitae

Economist, Research & Innovation Division, NC Soft, Sep. 2022- Present

Head of Division, December & Company Inc., Management Planning Division, Apr. 2023-Nov. 2023

Adjunct Professor, Hanyang University, Dept. of Finance Management, Sep. 2022-Mar. 2023

Fellow, Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI),  Department of Spectrum Policy Research, Jul. 2016- Aug. 2022

Delegate for Republic of Korea, ITU-T SG3 (Economic and Policy Issues) , Aug. 2021 - Sep.2022

Doctoral Studies

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

Ph. D., Economics, May 2016

Dissertation: Essays on Economic Decision Making

Dissertation Committee: Brian W. Rogers (Chair), Jonathan Weinstein, Paulo Natenzon

Education

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA (A.M., Economics, 2012)

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (B.A., Economics and B.A., Mathematics, 2010, Magna Cum Laude)

Academic Interests

Game Theory - Industrial Organization, Repeated Game

Experimental Economics - Experimental Auctions, Strategic Decision-Making

Policy         Interests

Spectrum Policy - Auction Design, Pricing, Network Obligation

Platform Industry Policy - Market Design, Pricing

(Video) Game Industry Policy - eSports Policy

Academic Research 

South Korean Spectrum Reassignment and Its Implications, 2022, International Telecommunication Policy Review 

Private 5G Spectrum Assignment Policy in South Korea, 2022, International Telecommunication Policy Review

Mixing Propensity and Strategic Decision Making with Duk Gyoo Kim(Sungkyunkwan Univ.), 2022, Joun. of Behav. and Exp. Econ.

Two-Sided Repeated Matching Game with Multi-Attributed Preference, 2019, Joun. of Korea Indus. Org.

Policy Projects, Reports, and Articles

Spectrum Policy for 5G and Related Vertical Industries (KISDI Premium Report, Aug 2019, Korean)

The Future Brought by 5G (Newspaper and Broadcasting, Oct 2018, Korea Press Foundation, Korean)

Current Trends in Spectrum Auction for 5G Spectrum (KISDI Premium Report, Dec 2017, Korean)

Economic Evaluation Methodology for Unlicensed Radio Spectrum in Korea (KISDI Research Report, 2017, Korean)

Development of Demand-Based Spectrum Assignment Policy (2016 - Present, Project from MSIT)

Development of Spectrum Auction Simulator (KISDI, 2017-2018, Project from MSIT)

Academic

Presentations

Department of Management, Chung-Ang University (Jul 2018, Seoul, South Korea)

International Conference on Game Theory ( Jul 2018, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (Aug 2016, Kyoto, Japan)

Singapore Economic Review Conference (Aug 2015, Singapore)

UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications (Nov 2015, Lisbon, Portugal)

Graduate Student Conference (Oct, 2012 - 2015, St. Louis, MO, USA)

Policy

Presentations

NIT Aayog (Dec 2019, New Delhi, India)

MWC Los Angeles (Oct 2019, Los Angeles, USA)

Armenian Engineering Week (Jun 2019, Yerevan, Armenia)

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Dec 2017, Tokyo, Japan)

Honors

Research of the Year Award (Korea Association of Telecommunication Policy, 2022)

Minister's Award (Ministry of Science and ICT, 2019)

Economic Theory Center Research Grant (WUSTL, 2015)

Student Summer Research Grant (WUSTL, 2011 - 2015)

Economics Thesis Award (Maeil Daily Business, 2006)

Dean's List of Distinguished Students (Yonsei Univesity, 2004 - 2010)

Bang Il-young Foundation Scholarship (Chosun Ilbo, 2005 - 2010)

Merit Scholarship (Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, 2005 - 2010)

Merit Scholarship (Yonsei University, 2004)