Professor

• Closed-form and/or efficient estimator for various statistical models

• Circular Data Diagnostics

• Statistical Recommender System

• Statistical Modelling using Skewed Distributions

2004-Present Professor, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

2020-     Director of KU Statistical Research Institute

2020 Visiting professor of Statistics Department,University of California, Riverside

2019-2023 BoD Ordinary Members of ISAC-ARS

2019-2022 Mathematics Review board of National Research Foundation of Korea

2017-2023                       Associate editor of Journal of the Korean Statistical Society (JKSS)

2017-2021 Associate editor of Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods (CSAM)

2015         Director of General Affairs, the Korean Statistical Society

2012-2013         Editor of the Korean Statistical Society Newsletter

2012-2013         Director of the Korean Statistical Society

2010-2011         Associate Editor of Communications of the Korean Statistical Society

2010-2011         Associate Editor of The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics

2009-2010         Visiting Associate professor of Statistics Department, Texas A&M University

2004         SummerVisiting Assistant professor of Biostatistics, Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

2003-2004         Research Biostatistician of Driscoll Children’s Hospital, USA

2001-2004 Assistant professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

• Summa Cum Laude, Konkuk University, 1994.

• Young Researcher's Award in Statistics from the Korean Statistical Society, 2006.

• Best paper Award in Science and Technology from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, 2017.

• Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who Ventures LLC, 2019-2021.

• Wynn Who's Who in the World, 2020.

• Lifetime affiliation with Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2020.

• Academic award from Konkuk university, 2022.

• Poster awards from the Korean Statistical Society (Hwi-Young Lee and Hyoung-Jin Park, 2013)

• Graduate presentation awards from the Korean Statistical Society (Jun Zhao, 2016)

• Poster awards from the Korean Statistical Society (Sang Kyu Lee and Jaeho Chang, 2019)

• Graduate School Dean's Academic Award from Konkuk University (Ph.D. Jun Zhao, 2020)

• Poster awards from the Korean Statistical Society (JungJae Choi, 2025)