Education

Ph.D in Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2023 (expected)
- Advisors: Dr. Murali Haran and Dr. John Hughes
M.A. in Applied statistics, Yonsei University, 2018
- Advisor: Dr. Taeyoung Park
- Master’s Thesis Title: Flexible modeling of clusters in asset prices using the nested Dirichlet process
B.A. in Business administration and Applied statistics, Yonsei University, 2016

Honors and Awards

Poster Award, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 2022
Award for Support of Pedagogy in Graduate Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University, 2021
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2018 - 2019
Graduated with High Honors (February 2016), High Honors (Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014), Honors (Fall 2011), Yonsei University

Research Interests

Statistical computing; Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms; models for spatial and spatiotemporal data; infectious disease modeling

Teaching Experience

The Pennsylvania State University
- Instructor
  - MATH/STAT318 - Elementary Probability, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
- Teaching Assistant
  - STAT515 - Stochastic Processes and Monte Carlo Methods, Spring 2021
  - STAT416 - Stochastic Modeling, Fall 2020
  - STAT200 - Elementary Statistics, Spring 2020, Fall 2019
Yonsei University
- Instructor
  - STA2104 - Computer Programming, Spring 2018
- Teaching Assistant
  - STA3126 - Mathematical Statistics I, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
  - STA1001 - Introduction to Statistics, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
  - STA3124 - Stochastic Process, Spring 2017

Volunteer Experience

Reviewer for international journals and conferences
- Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
- Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS)

Software

The “lazygreedy” package for R (with John Hughes, Lehigh University)

Publications

Presentations