About Me
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Statistics at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. My research interests span the full breadth of statistical science, from theories and methodologies to applications and programming.
Prior to Konkuk University, I was a Pre/Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics at Michigan State University, where I was co-advised by Dr. Haolei Weng and Dr. Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong. Earlier, I completed both my B.A. and M.A. in Statistics at Konkuk University in South Korea, where I was advised by Dr. Hyoung-Moon Kim.
Research Interests
- Quantile Regression
- High-dimensional Data Analysis
- Non/Semiparametric Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Health Disparity Analysis
- Statistical Software
News
- [Oct. 2025] Our paper, Decomposition of Longitudinal Disparities: an Application to the Fetal Growth-Singletons Study, is accepted for publication in Biostatistics.
- [Jun. 2025] In Sep 2025, I will join the Department of Applied Statistics, Konkuk University, South Korea, as an Assistant Professor (will be on leave for 6 months).
- [Mar. 2025] Our paper, A comprehensive estimator for the Fréchet distribution: asymptotical efficiency and practical applications to health studies, is accepted for publication in JKSS.
- [Aug. 2024] I won the Early Career Award from the ASA Statistics in Epidemiology Section Junior Researcher/Student Paper Competition in JSM 2024.
