Employment

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

• Assistant Professor, Division of Finance & AI, 2025–Present

Yonsei University

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Statistics and Data Science, 2025

• Research Director, Center for Finance and Technology, 2025

• Associate Fellow, Quantitative Finance Lab., 2025

Education

Yonsei University

• PhD in Industrial Engineering, 2025

• BS in Industrial Engineering, 2022

• BS in Information and Statistics, 2022

Honors and Awards

Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society

• Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2025

Yonsei University

• Excellent Academic Paper Award, 2025

• Dissertation Fellowship, 2024

• International Joint Research Grant, 2024

• Yonsei Graduate Fellowship, 2024–2025

• Academy Research Fellowship, 2022

• PhD/BS Fellowship, 2022–2025

K-DS Conference

• Future Research Award, 2024

Daewoong Foundation

• AI & Big Data Global Scholarship, 2022–2024

Funding

Scotland-Korea Collaboration on Quantum Simulation in Asset Pricing based on the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator, Quantum Technologies Alliance for Research Challenge, 2025

Patent

Intelligent Management System and Method for Nuclear Decommissioning Site Characterization, South Korea, 2023

Short-Term Training

• Microteaching Pedagogy: Fundamentals of Lesson Planning, Innovation Center for Teaching and Learning, Yonsei University (2024)

• Quantum Machine Learning using Python, Institute of Data Science, Yonsei University (2024)

• Propensity Score Analysis, Center for Digital Social Science, Yonsei University (2024)

• Application of Large Language Model, Institute of Data Science, Yonsei University (2024)

• Survival Analysis using R, Institute of Data Science, Yonsei University (2023)

Publications

1. "Facial sentiment and verbal content in harmony: Theory and evidence," with Bae, S., Shim, Y., Shim, J., Yoon, H., & Ahn, K. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Media Coverage, JCR 2025: Top 3.9%, Accepted).

2. "Quantitative structure and sentiment of news articles on housing policies," with Bae, S., Lee, G., & Ahn, K. Chaos 36, 033110, 2026 (Featured Article, JCR 2025: Top 3.9%).

3. "Spatial appreciation of the floor plan complexity in housing price appraisal," with Bae, S., Choi, G., & Ahn, K. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 203, 117580, 2026 (JCR 2025: Top 0.8%).

4. "Toward transparent and accurate housing price appraisal: Hedonic price models versus machine learning algorithms," with Song, Y., Jang, H., & Ahn, K. Financial Innovation 11, 141, 2025 (JCR 2025: Top 3.6%).

5. "Reputation matters: Residents' sentiment and housing price," with Choi, G., Song, Y., & Ahn, K. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, 1896, 2025 (JCR 2025: Top 3.1%).

6. "Asymmetric impacts of artificial intelligence on housing price valuation across education levels," with Song, Y., Jang, H., & Ahn, K. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, 1884, 2025 (JCR 2025: Top 3.1%).

7. "Housing price estimation and reasoning based on a large language model," with Bae, S., Jung, L., Nam, S., & Ahn, K. Finance and Large Language Models (Book Chapter), Springer Nature, 27–45, 2025.

8. "The effect of rare events on information-leading role: Evidence from real estate investment trusts and overall stock markets," with Kim, J., Choi, G., Jang, H., & Ahn, K. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 1628, 2024 (JCR 2024: Top 6.8%).

9. "Aggregated hedonic dataset with a green index: Busan, South Korea," with Bae, S., Song, Y., & Ahn, K. Data in Brief 57, 111009, 2024 (JCR 2024: Q3).

10. "Economic impacts of a subway system: Exploring local contexts in a metropolitan area," with Ahn, K., Bae, J., & Song, Y. Research in Transportation Business and Management 56, 101188, 2024 (JCR 2024: Q2).

11. "Intelligent nuclear decommissioning solution: Code for site characterization and management of overall surveys," with Byun, H., Park, J., Kim, J., Kim, J., Lee, D., & Lee, B. Annals of Nuclear Energy 196, 110212, 2024 (JCR 2024: Q1).

12. "Assessment of street-level greenness and its association with housing prices in a metropolitan area," with Jang, H., Kim, H., Song, Y., & Ahn, K. Scientific Reports 13, 22577, 2023 (JCR 2023: Q1).

13. "Information management for nuclear decommissioning: Synthesizing texts with drawings," with Kim, H., Jeong, M., Kim, J., Byun, H., Lee, D.Y., Kim, J., & Ahn, K. Transactions of the Korean Nuclear Society, 2022 (Conference Proceedings).

14. "Deep neural network as a tool for appraising housing prices: A case study of Busan, South Korea," with Song, Y., Jang, H., & Ahn, K. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2287, 012019, 2022 (Scopus).

15. "Hedonic dataset of the metropolitan housing market: Cases in South Korea," with Song, Y., Ahn, K., & Jang, H. Data in Brief 35, 106877, 2021.

Working Papers

• Shanghai crude oil futures: Asian benchmark?
  (In Progress)

• Natural language processing and historical site assessment in nuclear decommissioning
  (Submitted, Scientific Reports)

• Urban heterogeneity in pooled cross-city property valuation: A gate-guided mixture-of-experts framework
  (Under Review, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy)

• Text-free generation of a livability preference proxy for housing price appraisal using large language models
  (Under Review, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)

• yLPPL: A MATLAB Toolbox for Forecasting Financial Crashes
  (Revise and Resubmit, Computational Economics)

• Urban mobility and housing prices: Evidence from Busan, South Korea
  (Revise and Resubmit, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications)

Work in Progress

• Predictably uncertain? Systematic relationship between market volatility and return forecast error scale

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

• Deep Learning Theory and its Applications
  Fall 2026

• Financial Time Series Analysis
  Fall 2026
  Fall 2025 (4.3/5.0)

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  Spring 2026 (4.2/5.0)

• Introductory Game Theory
  Spring 2026 (4.5/5.0)

• Machine Learning for Applications
  Spring 2026 (4.1/5.0)
  Fall 2025 (4.2/5.0)

Reviewer

• Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 

• BMC Public Health

• Computational Economics

• Emerging Markets Review

• Expert Systems with Applications

• Financial Innovation

• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

• Information Processing & Management

• Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

• Quality & Quantity

References

Yonsei University

• Prof. Kwangwon Ahn (Finance)

• Prof. Hyunsoo Yoon (AI)

Glasgow Caledonian University

• Prof. Hanwool Jang (Real Estate)

Chonnam National University

• Prof. Yena Song (Geography)

Seoul National University

• Prof. Mooyoung Choi (Physics)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• Prof. Jooyoung Jeon (Forecasting)

FNC Technology

• Dr. Dooyong Lee (Nuclear Engineering)