CV

Education

University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics: Sep. 2025 - Present
- Role: Pearson Fellow/Acting Instructor
- Duties include: Teach CFRM courses in quantitative finance, machine learning for finance, R programming, and financial signal processing.
Purdue University, Department of Statistics: Jan. 2025 - Aug. 2025
- Role: Visiting Assistant Professor
- Duties include: Taught statistical inference and multiple sections of elementary statistics, including online and Indianapolis sections.
VivityAI: 2022 - 2024
- Data Analyst — Seoul, Korea (remote)
- Duties include: Develop AI predictive models to improve the quality of smart factory manufacturing system (academia-industry collaboration)
- Supervisor: Prof. Kiseop Lee
Asan Medical Center: 2019 - 2020
- Research Assistant — Seoul, Korea
- Duties include: Proposed efficient deep learning algorithms for classification and segmentation tasks in pathology image analysis
- Supervisor: Prof. Chan-sik Park and Prof. Jin Roh
LG CNS: Winter 2018
- Smart Factory Intern — Seoul, Korea
- Duties include: Analyzed LG Innotek battery production data to address a defect identification problem under class imbalance during Smart IT internship in AI&Big Data department

Academic Honors
- Department nomination of IBM PhD Fellowship Awards (August 2024)
- Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Assistant, Purdue University (April 2024)
- Recognition Award for Efficiency Improvements, Purdue University (April 2024)
- Graduate Student Instructor scholarship, Seoul National University (Fall 2018)
- Academic Scholarship for Excellent Students (2013-2014, 2018)
Travel Grants
- ASA 2024, CEPAR 2023, SIAM 2023, WISP 2022, Emily and Paul Kidwell Graduate Student Excellent Award 2022

Session Organizer
- Co-organized an invited session “Data-Driven Methods in Financial Markets” at JSM 2024, Portland, Oregon August 2024