About me

I am an astronomer studying how galaxies form and evolve, based on the statistical interpretation of observational data and the comparison to theoretical predictions. Currently, I am an associate scientist at National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and working for the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC). 

If you're curious what ALMA means, ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array which consists of many (66 and possibly more) radio antennas and virtually forms a one big aperture radio telescope. 

My primary role in the NAASC is to support ALMA users and contribute to the development and testing of the data reduction pipeline and the quality assurance metrics.  My research mainly focuses on the atomic and molecular gas contents in galaxies, the active galactic nuclei and supermassive black holes, stellar dynamics, and Bayesian data analysis.  

I graduated from Seoul National University in Korea with B.S. and M.S. degree in astronomy. After compulsory military service in Korea, I moved to USA and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with Ph.D. in Astronomy. After two years of my postdoc at George Mason University, I moved to the Netherlands and have worked at Leiden observatory for 2 years as a postdoc. Then I came back to USA and started work at NRAO.

If you want to know more about my research, please take a look at my research.