2025 American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Doctoral Dissertation Award ($2000)⎜March 2025⎜American Academy of Advertising
Proposal title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots for online conversational advertising: The effects of shared identity and emotional expression levels
2024 AEJMC Advertising Division Washington Media Scholars Foundation (WMSF) 2024 Graduate Research Scholarship, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication⎜July 2024
Proposal title: Designing AI chatbots for online public service advertising (PSA): The effects of shared identity and experiential mind levels
2024 HSAD Global Research Award, Korean Advertising Society⎜July 2024
Paper title: How does a chatbot with an experiential mind persuade people? The mediating roles of emotions and cognitive absorption
2024 Summer Doctoral Research Assistantship ($3,792), University of Georgia⎜Summer 2024
Proposal title: Can a chatbot initiate “buying less” to vote with our wallets? The effects of shared identity and responsibility attribution on closing the human-chatbot gap for environmental conservation
AAA 2024 Grad Student Conference Scholarships ($750), The American Academy of Advertising⎜March 2024
Graduate Student Travel Scholarship ($500), University of Georgia⎜December 2023
2023 Summer Research Grant ($1350), University of Georgia⎜May 2023
AAA 2023 Grad Student Conference Scholarships ($500), The American Academy of Advertising⎜March 2023
Best Paper Runner-Up Award, Korean Safety Health Environment Foundation⎜November 2020
Top 3 Graduate Student Paper Award, Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies⎜July 2020
GS SHOP Contents Leader Scholarship, Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies⎜October 2019
Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Sogang University⎜Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Albatross Fellowship (Full Tuition Waived), Sogang University⎜Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
Distinction Award (Top 1%), Sogang University⎜Fall 2017
University Honors, University of Michigan⎜Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Fall 2014, Winter 2015