Current Position

Statistician (Manager Position) at AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, USA 

(Previous professional experience includes full-time permanent positions at Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, and Edwards Lifesciences, as well as summer internship experience at Novartis and Merck.)

Education

• PhD, Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, 2021 (Thesis Advisor: Dr. Bani K. Mallick)

    Doctoral Dissertation: "Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling: Application towards Complex and High-dimensional Data" Link

• MA, Applied Statistics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 2016 (Thesis Advisor: Dr. J.H.T. Kim)

    Master's Thesis: "Exponentiated generalized Pareto distribution: an alternative to the generalized Pareto distribution" Link

• BS, Mathematics, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 2013

🔔NEWS 2026

1. My paper titled “MEC: Machine-Learning-Assisted Generalized Entropy Calibration for Semi-Supervised Mean Estimation” was accepted to Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning. See ICML 2026 Link Arkiv Video Recoding Slide (6,352 accepted among 23,918 reviewed submissions; acceptance rate: 26.6%)

2. Received Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award 2026 for recognizing my place among the top 20% for manuscripts sent to peer review, highlighting careful evaluation of submissions and strong stewardship of the peer review process Award