March 2009 - November 2012
Bachelor´s degree
Earth Science and Engineering, Environmental Analysis & Pollution Control Engineering,
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
December 2012 - February 2019
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Environmental Science and Engineering (Combined Master’s-Doctoral Course),
UNIST, South Korea
March, 2022 - Present
Senior Researcher
Center for Sustainable Environment Research
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea
February, 2021 - February, 2022
Research Professor
Department of Oceanography
Chonnam National University, South Korea
March, 2019 - January, 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington
2014 - 2019
Fostering Core Leaders of the Future Basic Science Program
(funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea)
Improvement of Seasonal Prediction by Investigating Teleconnection Mechanism between the Tropics and the Polar Regions (Role: PI)
Total Funding: ~200,000 USD
2021 - 2026
Sejong Science Fellowship (funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea)
A study on deep learning-based prediction of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation (Role: PI)
Total Funding: ~500,000 USD
2022 - 2027
Project for Advancement of Utilizing High-performance Computing (funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea)
Development of an AI global climate prediction system at high-resolution (Role: PI)
Total Funding: ~3,000,000 USD
June 2011 - August 2011 (undergraduate internship)
GMAO, NASA GFSC
(Dr. Arlindo da Silva)
January 2012 - February 2012 (undergraduate internship)
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center (APCC)
February 2016 - April 2016
University of Hawaii at Manoa
(Prof. Fei-Fei Jin)
April 2016 - May 2016 / June 2018 - July 2018
University of Washington
(Prof. Daehyun Kim)
National Undergraduate Scholarship from Ministry of Science and Technology (2009.03 – 2012.11)
Outstanding Poster Award, Korean Meteorological Society (2012.11; 2014.10)
Undergraduate Student Achievement Award, UNIST (2012.12)
Nine Bridges Fellowship, UNIST, (2012.12 – 2014.02, ~25,000 USD/year)
Scholarships for international conferences, UNIST (2015.01, ~4,000 USD)
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Korean Meteorological Society (2019,10)
Young Atmospheric Scientist award, Korean Meteorological Society (2023.11)
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Korean Meteorological Society (2025.11)