About

I am an associate professor in the Department of Applied Statistics at Yonsei University. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Michigan in 2016 and was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University before joining Sungkyunkwan University. I joined Yonsei University in March 2024.

Appointments

• Yonsei University
  Associate Professor, Department of Applied Statistics
  March 2024–present · Seoul, Korea

• Sungkyunkwan University
  Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
  March 2023–February 2024 · Seoul, Korea

• Sungkyunkwan University
  Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
  September 2018–February 2023 · Seoul, Korea

• Yale University
  Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biostatistics
  August 2016–July 2018 · New Haven, USA

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, 2016
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

• M.S. in Mathematics, 2010
  Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

• B.S. in Mathematics and B.E. in Industrial Engineering, 2009
  Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Editorial service

• Associate Editor, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

• Associate Editor, TEST

Research funding

• National Research Foundation of Korea (중견연구)
  Principal Investigator, 2025–2030

• Yonsei University Future-Leading Research Initiative, 2024–2026

• National Research Foundation of Korea (중견연계 신진후속)
  Principal Investigator, 2022–2025

• National Research Foundation of Korea (우수신진연구)
  Principal Investigator, 2019–2022

• KOFAC Undergraduate Research Program
  Principal Investigator, 2019

• Sungkyun Research Fund
  Principal Investigator, 2018–2019

Awards

• 제33회 과학기술우수논문상, 한국과학기술단체총연합회, 2023

• ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science Student Paper Competition, 2015
  For “Dantzig-type penalization for multiple quantile regression with high dimensional covariates.”

Contact

ishspsy@yonsei.ac.kr
Room 434, Daewoo Hall
Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University
Seoul, Korea