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Current Affiliation:

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky (August 2025 –)

Previous Positions:

Visiting Lecturer, School of Economics and Business Administration, Yokohama City University (May 2026)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Fall 2024)

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (August 2018 – May 2025)

Education: 

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2012–2018) 

M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2014)

B.A. in Economics, Seoul National University (2006–2012)

Honors, Grants, and Awards :

1. Principal Investigator, “Bridging the Racial Disparity in Wealth Creation in Milwaukee,” Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), 2022, $147,000.

2. Principal Investigator, “Digital Lead and Financial Representative Matching by Ensemble Learning and Graph Matching,” Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, 2021–2022, $125,000.

3. Yoshio Niho Faculty Excellence Fund, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)

4. Anna Morris Ely Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016)

5. Grainger Fellowship Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2017)

6. L&S Teaching Fellows Award (Nominated), University of Wisconsin–Madison (2017)

7. Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award (Nominated), University of Wisconsin–Madison (2017)

8. STX Study Abroad Scholarship, STX Foundation (2012–2014)

Personal :

1. Languages: Korean (native), English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate), Mandarin Chinese (beginner)

2. Programming: MATLAB, STATA, R, Python, Julia, LaTeX

3. Others: First violin section, New Horizons Orchestra, University of Kentucky

4. Citizenship: Republic of Korea; U.S. Permanent Resident