Curriculum Vitae

Education

In Progress

2025 August - Present

PhD in Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2023 March - 2025 August

M.S., Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.

Thesis: Roles of Other-Condemning Emotions in Korean Digital Feminism: A Structural Topic Modeling and Moral Emotion Approach

2018 September - 2020 August

M.A., Sociology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Thesis: Career Survival, Deviation Trend and Factor Analysis of Women in Science and Technology: Using Survival Analysis and Random Forests

2013 March - 2018 August

B.A., Sociology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.

Research Interests

Social Movements, Affect and Emotions, Feminism and Gender, Computational Social Science, Mixed Methods. 

Work in Progress

Survivorship in Public: Differential Durability and the Conflictual Face of Korean Digital Feminism

Honors and Grants

2024 January

Computational Social Science Research Grant, Underscore, South Korea

Selected as the top recipients of data driven social science research on "Analysis on the Online Public Sphere of Feminism at Twitter"

Teaching Experience

2026 Spring 

Teaching Assistant for Technology and Society

2025 Fall 

Teaching Assistant for Gender

2024 Fall, Spring/ 2023 Fall

TA for Introduction to Culture Technology

Conference Presentations (Selected)

Dahyun Ryu. March, 2025. "Analysis on the Blaming Politics in Feminist Discourses on Twitter" presented at the 2025 Forking Room Research Lab Talk: It Does LOok Like It Is Left, Seoul, South Korea.

Dahyun Ryu. December, 2024. "Dual Role of Other-Condemning Emotion in Digital Feminist Movements: Evidence from Korean Twitter Discourse (2018-2023)" presented at 2024 Korean Sociological Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

Dahyun Ryu. August, 2024. "Role of Anger in South Korean Feminism with Structural Topic Modeling and Moral Emotion Analysis" presented at the 2024 European Sociological Association Conference, Violence and Social Media Session, Porto, Portugal.

Professional Experience (Selected)

2025 June - 2025 October

Research Assistant at Korea Women's Development Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Project: Gender Statistics on Violence.
Organized national gender statistics, visualization.

2024 April - 2024 September

Researcher from KAIST & Amore Pacific & Daum Foundation Research Project on Korea Teens' Beauty Conceptions

Web crawling, network analysis, topic modeling analysis

2021 July - 2023 February

Research Assistant at Korea Women's Development Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Service to Department & Community

2025 Fall - 2026 Spring

Graduate Student Advisory Council of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

2023 Fall

Graduate Student Representative of Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. 

2021 - Present

Organizer & Activist of Flaming Feminist Action (Grassroot Feminist Organization), Seoul.

Skills

Python, R, SPSS, Excel

Language 

English, Korean