ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Education/Training:
Advisors:
Dzung L. Pham, Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, NIH, USHUS, The Henry Jackson Foundation
Brain S. Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2011
Advisors: Haipeng Shen, Department of Statistics and Operations Research Young K. Truong, Department of Biostatistics
Dissertation: Independent Component Analysis in Spectral Domain
Advisor: Sangyeol Lee, Department of Statistics
Dissertation: MOSUM Test in Time Series
Awards:
2013 ENAR RAB Poster Presentation Award
2011 UNC Graduate and Professional Student Federation Travel Award
2010 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Competition Award: Travel award from the ENAR to attend the 2010 Spring Meeting in New Orleans
2010 IMS Laha Travel Award: Travel award from the IMS to attend the 2010 Annual Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
Experience:
Teaching:
2009:
2007:
2003-2005:
Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2009
Course name: STOR155 Introduction to Statistics
- Prepared and led lectures for classes of 43 undergraduate students
- Constructed and graded exams
Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2006, Spring and Summer 2007
Courses: Introductory statistics and time series data analysis using ITMS
- Prepared solutions of homeworks.
Instructor, Seoul National University
Courses: Statistics Laboratory courses with SAS
- Prepared and led lectures for classes of 40 undergraduate students
-Constructed and graded exams for the course
Research:
2010-2011
2010-2011
Graduate Fellow,
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Science Institute, Fall 2010Spring 2011
-Joined working groups related to brain imaging and complex networks
Research Assistant,
Dittmer Laborabory, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2010--Spring 2011
-Developed statistical methods to identify underlying structures of miRNA sequencing data
-Theoretical analysis of statistical methods for analyzing miRNA sequencing data
2008-2010
Research Assistant,
Department of Biostatistics, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2008Spring2010
-Developed statistical methods to separate blind sources, specifically, for fMRI data
-Delivered presentations of statistical ideas to a diverse scientific audience
-Theoretical analysis of statistical methods for analyzing fMRI data
2009
2007-2008
Visiting Scholar,
Neurology at Pennsylvania State Hershey, Summer 2009
-Developed statistical procedures to analyze Ldopa effect on Parkinson's disease patients in collaboration with the neurology laboratory led by Dr. Xumei Huang .
Graduate Industrial Traineeship,
SAS Institute, Spring 2007Summer 2008
-Developed statistical procedures using SASIML
-Developed data visualization techniques for complex statistical models
2005-2006
2005
2003-2004
Research Assistant,
Seoul National UniversityOffice of Admission, 2005-2006
-Developed statistical methods for college admission data
-Adapted statistical procedures for easy interpretation by nonstatisticians
Internship,
Nemo Partners – Seoul, South Korea, 2005
-Analyzed customer relationship management data using data mining techniques
Research Assistant,
Seoul National UniversityInstitute of Statistical Consulting, 2003-2004
-Provided statistical consulting services for dissertation research
-Taught statistical packages such as SPSS and SAS in Workshops
Languages:
Korean
English
Native
Fluent
Computer skills:
NeuroImaging Softwares
Typography
SPM, FSL, WFU PickAtlas, MIPAV, MRICroN
LaTeX, Microsoft Office, Open Office
Scientific
OS
Matlab, R, S-Plus, SAS, SAS-IML, JMP, ITMS, SPSS
Linux/Unix, Windows