CV

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of Finance, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Aug 2019 - present

EDUCATION

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

• Ph.D. Business Administration, Aug 2019

  • Major in Finance & Minor in Econometrics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

• M.S. Statistics, May 2013

Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

• B.S., Aug 2011

• First major: Computer and Communication Engineering

• Second major: Financial Engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Behavioral Finance

• Empirical Asset Pricing

• Corporate events in behavioral perspective

• Textual Analysis with Machine Learning

• Uncertainty

• ESG and Climate Change Risk

Conference/Seminar - Presentations/Discussions/Session Chairs (*in Korean)

2026:  Korea Institute of Public Finance Seminar*; KAFA-KIF-KCMI Joint Symposium*

2025: AFA AFFECT Mentoring Workshop; Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA)*; Financial Management Association (FMA)

2024:  Financial Information Society of Korea*; Korea Derivatives Association*

2023: Korean Securities Association*; Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA)*; Korea Academic Society of Business Administration*; Conference on Asian-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)

2022: Conference on Asian-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM)

2021: Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD); Conference on Asian-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM); Liaoning University AIFE Workshop; Korea-America Finance Association Brownbag Seminar 

2020: Allied Korea Finance Associations (AKFA)

2019: Southern Finance Association (SFA); Conference on Asian-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), Korea University Seminar; UNIST Brownbag Seminar 

2016: Financial Management Association (FMA)

Services

• Moderator & Committee at International Conferences 

Operating Committee, Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD), 2022 - 2026

Review Committee, Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD), 2026

Review Committee, Asian Finance Association (Asian FA), 2026

Program Committee, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), 2019, 2024, 2025

Moderator for Special Guest Lecture, Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM), 2021

• Moderator & Committee at Korean Policy Symposium (in Korean)

“Joint Policy Forum on ETF Market in Korea”, Korea Derivatives Association, Korea Capital Markets Institute, 2024

“Policy Forum on ELS Sales in Korea”, Korea Derivatives Association, 2024

• Academic & Non-academic Services

Associate Editor, Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies (선물연구 편집위원), 2026

Director, Korean Securities Association (한국증권학회 이사), 2026

Director, Korean Finance Association (한국재무학회 이사), 2026

Director, Korea Derivatives Association (한국파생상품학회 이사), 2025 - present

Director of General Affairs, Korea Derivatives Association (한국파생상품학회 총무이사), 2024

Associate Editor, Korean Journal of Financial Studies (한국증권학회지 편집위원), 2020 - 2022

Advisory Committee, Bank of Korea Ulsan Branch, Ulsan, Korea (한국은행 울산본부 자문교수), 2025 - present 

Advisory Committee, Ulju County, Ulsan, Korea (울주군 출자-출연기관 운영심의위원회 자문위원), 2023 - present

Advisory Committee, Ulsan, Korea (울산광역시 물류단지 실수요검증위원회 자문위원), 2023

Consulting Service: GS-Caltex Risk Management Professional Program, 2021

 - Topic: Estimation of implied/historical/SMA/EWMA/GARCH volatilities

• Ad-hoc Reviewer

Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Korean Journal of Financial Studies, Asian Review of Financial Research, Financial Information Society of Korea, Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies