Selected Publications & Presentations 

Published Papers

1. Local Fréchet regression with spherical predictors. Im, C. J., Jeon, J. M. and Park, B. U. (2025). Electronic Journal of Statistics, 19(2), 5313-5367.

2. Local Fréchet regression with toroidal predictors. Im, C. J. and Jeon, J. M. (2026). Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Early View. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.70093

Preprints and Papers under Revision 

1. A Note on a Local Entropy Condition in the Wasserstein Space (co-author: Jeong Min Jeon, Byeong U. Park, under revision at Statistics & Probability Letters) 

2. Local Fréchet regression with Riemannian predictors (co-author: Jeong Min Jeon, arXiv preprint) 

3. Functional Principal Component Analysis for Manifold-Indexed Data (co-author: Jeong Min Jeon, arXiv preprint) 

4. Robust Local Fréchet regression: Nonasymptotic Theory and Minimax Optimality (co-author: Daisuke Kurisu, Submitted manuscript) 

Selected Ongoing Projects

1. Semiparametric Regression (co-author: Daisuke Kurisu and Alexander Petersen)

2. Parametric Regression (co-author: Shogo Kato and Sungkyu Jung) 

Talks

1. Chart-Induced Global Fréchet Regression

   • Seminar at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Shogo Kato)

2. Local Fréchet Regression with Riemannian Predictors

   • The 1st Asian New Researchers Conference (2026) - Oral and Poster Presentation

   • The Summer Conference of the Korean Statistical Society (2026) - Oral Presentation

   • The IMS Annual Meeting (2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Yaqing Chen and Paromita Dubey)

   • The New Researchers Conference (2026) - Oral Presentation

   • International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc)

   • Statistical Foundations for the Analysis of Non-Euclidean Data (IMSI 2026) - Oral and Poster Presentation

3. Local Fréchet Regression with Toroidal Predictors

   • 1st International New Researchers Conference (1st INRC, 2025) - Oral Presentation

   • Seminar at Kyushu University (2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Yuichi Goto)

   • The 18th MSJ-SI on MMS (2026) - Poster Presentation

   • The 20th Spring Meeting of the Japan Statistical Society (2026) - Poster Presentation

   • The 26th Workshop on Nonparametric Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Statistics (2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Yasuhito Tsuruta)

   • The Applied Statistics Workshop at the University of Tokyo  (2026) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Daisuke Kurisu)

   • IMS-APRM 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2026) - Poster Presentation

4. Local Fréchet Regression with Spherical Predictors 

   • 8th International Conference on the Science of Data Science (ICSDS 2025) - Oral Presentation

   • International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2025) - Oral Presentation (Invited by Jeong Min Jeon)

   • Korean Statistical Society Winter Conference (2024) - Oral Presentation

Academic Activities 

Grants

1. Sejong Science Fellowship - National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 

• Principal Investigator (Mar. 2025 – Present)

• Project: Development of Structural Nonparametric Models for Non-Euclidean Data

• Funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea (No. RS-2025-00515381)

Research Visits & Programs

1. Brigham Young University (BYU) 

   • Visiting scholar, Department of Statistics (Sep. 2026 - Aug. 2027)

   • Host: Alexander Petersen

2. Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI)

• Participant, Long Program on Connectomics: Non-Euclidean Data Analysis for Brain Structure and Function (Sep. - Oct. 2026)

Awards

1. The 20th Spring Meeting of the Japan Statistical Society (2026)

• Excellent Presentation Award

2. Korean Statistical Society Winter Conference (2024)

• Commendation Award

Contact

Email

icj803@snu.ac.kr

CV

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Materials

A one-page summary of 'Local Fréchet regression with Riemannian predictors' is available.

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