Education

• Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2022, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering (Minor: Statistics), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

• Mar. 2016 - Feb. 2018, M.S., Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea

• Mar. 2010 - Feb. 2016, B.S., Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea

Professional Experience 

• Mar. 2024 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea

• Aug. 2022 - Jan. 2024, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Grants

• "Development of Human-Centered, Trustworthy, and Privacy-Preserving Agentic AI", National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) , PI, 09/2025 - Present

Professional Activities

• Journal Reviewers

  • Expert Systems with Applications (2024)

  • Knowledge-Based Systems (2023)

  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2023)

  • Journal of Engineering Research (2023)

  • Annals of Operations Research (2022)

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2021, 2022)

  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2021)

  • Data Technologies & Applications (2019, 2020)

  • Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour (2024)

Honors and Awards

• • 2019, Human Factors and Ergonomic Society (HFES) Annual Meeting Travel Award

  • 2017, Outstanding Scholarship, Kumoh National Institute of Technology

  • 2016, Academic Honors, Korea Institute of Intelligent Systems (KIIS)

  • 2016, Summa Cum Laude, Kumoh National Institute of Technology

  • 2016, Fellowship Brain Korea 21 Plus (BK+21), Ministry of Education

Talks

• 2025.04.26 Brain-Computer Interface: From Centralized Learning to Federated Learning and Beyond, Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems

• 2025.02.05 Brain-Computer Interface: From eXplainable AI to Privacy-Preserving AI and Beyond, Brain Engineering Society of Korea

• 2024.11.28 (Special Lecture) How are you preparing for the future in the age of AI?, KIT

• 2024.05.10 Deep Learning: From Centralized to Federated Learning and Beyond, Dongguk University

• 2021 Reinforcement learning-assisted multi-task learning for EEG-based emotion recognition with contextual information, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) Doctoral Colloquium

• 2021 Effectiveness of multi-task learning for deep learning on the prediction performance of EEG-based cognitive state recognition, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE)

• 2020 cGAN-based EEG data augmentation for neuroergonomics, US Korea Conference (UKC)

• 2020 DCGAN-based EEG data augmentation in cognitive state recognition, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE)

• 2020 Emotion recognition with a CNN using functional connectivity-based EEG features, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

• 2019 Detecting human trust calibration in automation: A deep learning approach, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

Membership

• Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE), 2019 - Present.

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), 2018 - Present.

• Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), 2018 - Present.

• Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems (KIIS), 2015 - Present.