About

I am a public management scholar who studies organizations and institutions governing the infrastructure that makes everyday life possible. These are systems we all depend on, from the more visible, like transportation and public safety, to the less noticeable, like innovation systems and mental health infrastructure. These systems may look unrelated, but they span the range of authority the state holds, from domains it can direct to those it can only encourage.

Across my research, I study how public organizations adapt to growing demands under authority and resource constraints, often by mobilizing external actors, and how those adaptations reshape the agency from within and its capacity to govern. I draw from organization theory, public administration, and policy process to answer this question. In my work, I use network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, expert interviews, archival analysis, and statistical methods, and I am currently building a multi-agent AI system that complements traditional qualitative research workflows.

My broader goal is to build theoretically grounded, empirically rich, and methodologically plural scholarship on how governments govern work they no longer do entirely themselves, across the full range of institutional fabric that enables human flourishing.

My work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Accountability and Reform Research Consortium (ARRC) convened by the Volcker Alliance, APPAM Entrepreneurship Policy Fellowship (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation), Mercatus Center Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship, GSU AYSPS Andrew Young Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea, Yonsei Center for Social Innovation, and Yonsei University.

Before my doctoral studies, I worked at a South Korean social tech start-up (featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review), served as a researcher for multiple Korean government agencies including the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Korea Forest Service, Science and Technology Policy Institute, and National Center for Mental Health, and was invited as a Young Academic for the 2018 P4G Summit in Copenhagen.

I hold an M.A. in Public Administration and a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Policy, both from Yonsei University.