Career

• Associate Professor, Department of International Finance, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, March 2021~

• Assistant Professor, Department of International Finance, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, March 2017~ February 2021

• Associate Dean, College of Economics and Business, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,  March 2024 ~ 

• Track Chair,  the Business & AI Track, Department of AI Convergence , Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,  March 2023 ~ February 2024

• Associate Dean, College of Economics and Business, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,  March 2018 ~March 2020 

• Department Chair, Department of International Finance, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, March 2018 ~ January 2020

•  Research Professor, Institute for Economics Research, Korea University,  Seoul, Korea. March  2015 - Feb  2017 

• Research Professor, Institute of Statistics, Korea University,  Seoul, Korea.  September 2014 - February  2015.  

• Manager, Asset Management Division, Samsung Life Insurance Seoul, Korea.  June 2012 - June 2013,

• Senior Research Fellow,  Retirement Research Center & Institute of Insurance and Finance Research, Samsung Life Insurance, Seoul, Korea. July, 2013 - March, 2014. 

Research Grants and Scholarships

• The 2024 Academic Research Support Program of the Korean Finance Association (Korea Ratings/NICE -Korean Finance Association Industry-Academia Collaborative Research). Title: Analysis on Corporate Credit Scoring Models and Key Financial Variables Using Machine Learning (2024.06~2024.11)

• National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT)                                                                                                                                                                          Title:  A Study on Statistical Expansion of Machine Learning Techniques for Inference and Modelling based on Quantification of Uncertainty: Statistical Machine Learning(2021.03-2024.08)

• National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT)                                                                                                                                                                          Title: Bayesian, sequential and filtering methods for financial data analysis  ( 2018 - 2021)

• Harvard GSAS Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September, 2005 - June, 2008

• Freshmen Special Scholarships, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Spring, 1999

• Best Honors Scholarships, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Spring, 2001

• Honors Scholarships, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002

Honors 

• HUFS Excellence in Research Award 2018,  Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,  April 19, 2019. 

• Distinction in Teaching Award, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. -  Elementary Statistics, (Spring, 2015)

• Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA , U.S.A.-  Statistical Sleuthing through Linear Models, (Fall, 2009).

• Semester High Honors, Korea University, Seoul, Korea., All Semesters, Spring, 1999 - Spring, 2002

• Graduation High Honors, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Fall, 2002

• Research Project 

  • Study on Improving Methods for Estimating Households by Type and Number of Household Members, Statistics Korea(통계청), 2024.05-2024.12

  • Curriculum Development and Lecturing, Data Science Professional Training Program, the Statistics Training Institute (통계교육원), April 2022 – September 2022 

  • Curriculum Development and Lecturing, Big Data Analysis Expert Training Program,  the Statistics Training Institute (통계교육원) April 2021 – June 2021 

• Other Carrer 

  • Risk Management Committee Member of the Teachers' Pension(사학연금), 2023~

  • Information Disclosure Deliberation Committee Member of Statistics Korea(통계청), 2023~ 

  • 2024 Future Household Projection Expert Advisory Committee of Statistics Korea(통계청), 2024.05~2024.11 

  • Lecturing, Basic Data Science Course, the Statistics Training Institute(통계교육원), January 2022 – March 2022 

  • Big Data Committee Member, GyeongGi-do(경기도), Dec 2017~ Dec 2019