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Research interests 

   * Aerosol pollution mesoscale, regional and climate forcings

   * Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions at mesoscale and regional scales

   * Ice physics

   * Mesoscale and regional modeling

   * Parameterization of cloud and aerosol processes in mesoscale, regional and climate models

   * Precipitation and hydrological patterns in mesoscale convective systems

   * Boundary layer meteorology and clouds

   * Cirrus-type ice clouds 

Education

  9/2002-5/2007 Ph.D. Princeton University, Princeton, USA

                       Program in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

  3/1999-2/2001 M.S, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

                       Department of the Atmospheric Sciences 

  3/1992-2/1999 B.S, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

                       Department of Astronomy and the Atmospheric Sciences

Immigration status

U.S citizen

Research and professional experiences 

  03/2023 ~ Senior Research Scientist, Science and Technology Corporation, Moffett Field, CA  

  07/2019 ~ Present Research Professor, Pusan National University, Korea  

  05/2014 ~ Present Associate Research Scientist (research faculty), UMD ESSIC

  06/2011 ~ 04/2014 Research Scientist II (research faculty), NOAA ESRL

  03/2010 ~ 05/2011 Research Scientist I, NOAA ESRL

  08/2007 ~ 02/2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

  09/2002 ~ 07/2007 Research Assistant, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton   

                              University 

  03/2001 ~ 06/2002 Post-Master Research Assistant, National Research Laboratory (NRL), 

                              Yonsei Univeristy, South Korea 

  03/1999 ~ 02/2001 Research Assistant, NRL, Yonsei University, South Korea 

  06/1998 ~ 02/1999 Undergraduate Research Fellow, Yonsei University, South Korea 

  12/1993 ~ 05/1996 Weather Observer and Weather Forecast Supporter, Air force, South Korea