• Education

• Ph.D. Statistics, Florida State University, 2018 (Advisor: Dr. Anuj Srivastava)

• M.S. Applied Statistics, Purdue University, 2012 (Advisor: Dr. Bruce Craig)

• B.S. Mathematics, Yonsei University, 2010

• Employment

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul Women's University, 2025-

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Keimyung University, 2022-2025

• Data Scientist, Optimization & Analysis Laboratory, SK Innovation, 2020-2022

• Research Scientist, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), RIKEN (Supervisor: Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara), 2018-2020

• Research Interests

• Functional Data Analysis

• Statistical Shape Data Analysis

• Data Science

• Machine Learning

• Bioinformatics

• Teaching

• Seoul Women's University

  • Data Preprocessing

  • Python for Data Science

  • Capstone Design

  • Advanced Statistical Analysis

• Keimyung University

  • Regression Analysis

  • Design of Experiments

  • Big Data Programming

  • Computational Statistics

  • Contemporary Statistics

  • Mathematical Statistics

  • Probability Theory

• Florida State University

  • STA 2023 Fundamental Business Statistics

• Purdue University

  • STAT 301 Elementary Statistical Methods

• Publications

• Single-cell transcriptomic reconstruction of the human hair cycle: Capturing the temporal dynamics of skin tissue remodeling, Cell Reports, 2025

• Evaluating the Performance of Machine Learning Models under the Generalized Linear Model framework†, Quantitative Bio-Science, 2025

• Functional k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm based on the Fisher-Rao metric*†, The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics, 2025

• Comparative study between Fisher-Rao framework and Dynamic Time Warping*†, Quantitative Bio-Science, 2024

• Functional Hierarchical Clustering Using Shape Distance*†, Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods, 2024

• Analysis of temperature differences between regions in South Korea using functional data analysis†, The Journal of Korean Data & Information Science Society,  2023

• LED Lights Influenced Phytochemical Contents and Biological Activities in Kale (Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala) Microgreens, Antioxidants, 2023

• A simple registration algorithm for different time domains of functional data*†, Quantitative Bio-Science, 2022

• Comparative study between functional data analysis and multivariate data analysis for functional data*†, The Journal of Korean Data & Information Science Society,  2022

• Mapping the molecular and structural specialization of the skin basement membrane for inter-tissue interactions, Nature Communications, 2021

• Regression models using shapes  of functions as predictors*†, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2020

• Elastic handling of predictor phase in functional regression models*†, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2018

* First author; † Corresponding author