ALUMNI

Bachelor's
Sociology
Sungkyunkwan University


Master's
Sociology
Ewha Womans University

Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2025.

Bachelor's
Sociology 
Shanghai University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2025.


Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Sociology
Research Assistant

Bachelor's
Business Administration
Sogang University


Master's
Culture Technology, Minor in Data Science
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2025.

Bachelor's
Computer and Information Technology
Purdue University


Master's
Metaverse
Graduate School of Metaverse, KAIST - Feb. 2025.

Bachelor's
Architecture and Urbanism 
Federal University of Uberlandia


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2025.

Website

Bachelor's
Business Administration
KU Leuven


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2024.

LinkedIn

Bachelor's
Social Psychology
Sookmyung Women's University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2024.

Bachelor's
Industrial & Information Design
Handong Global University


Master's
Design & Technology
Department of Design, Pusan National University - Feb. 2018


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2024
Thesis: Exploratory analysis on stylization tendency of user-generated visual arts in online platforms, 2010-2020


Research Associate (Feb. 2024 – Present)
Social Computing Lab, GSCT, KAIST


Research interests
Data Science; Cultural Analytics; Digital Creativity; User-Generated Content; Industrial Design
Google scholar

Bachelor's
Library and Information Science,
Data Science,
Sungkyunkwan University

Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2022.

Bachelor's
Political Science,
Statistics,
Kyungpook National University

Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2022.

Bachelor's
History
Hanyang University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2013


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2020
Thesis: Stars inside have reached outside: The effects of electronic dance music DJs’ social standing and musical identity on track success


Neutune
Strategy & managing director


Research Area
Musical and social behavior
Social network analysis

Bachelor's
Computer Science,
KAIST


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2010


Ph.D's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Aug. 2018
Thesis: A study on the influences of social functions on urban human mobility with scalable approaches.


Kakao Mobility
AIRnD Team Leader (Director)


Research Area
ML/Statistical Model Research and Serving
Demand Prediction/Dynamic Pricing/AI Matching

Bachelor's
Korean Language and Literature,
Sungkyunkwan University


Master's
Culture Technology
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST - Feb. 2017


Ph.D's
Data Science
Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University - Aug. 2022
Thesis: Mapping the knowledge structure of Korean humanities : Bibliographic data analysis of humanities journal articles in the Korea citation index, 2004~2019

KAIST
Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences
Research Assistant Professor, 2023~2024

The Academy of Korean Studies
Department of Cultural Informatics, Graduate School of Korean Studies
Assistant Professor, 2024~

Research Area
Digital Humanities
Computational Social Sciences

Bachelor's
Religion and Political Science
CUNY Hunter College - May. 2019


J.D.
Yale Law School - 2024


Yale Law School
Research Associate
(Henry Luce Foundation, Luce Scholar)


Research Area
Extremism, Privacy, Government response to extremism, Modern religion
(Work in progress: Studying the intersection between extremism and privacy)