• Ph.D. Statistics, Stanford University. Aug. 2003. (advisors : Prof. Amir Dembo and Prof. T. L. Lai )


• M.S. Statistics, Seoul National University. Feb. 1998. (advisor: Prof. Lee, Y.J.)


• B.S. Computer Science and Statistics, Seoul National University. Feb. 1995.

Employment:

• Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Mar. 2013 - present


• Chair, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019.


• Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Mar. 2008 - Feb. 2013.


• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University, Mar. 2006 - Feb. 2008.


• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University. Aug. 2003 - Feb. 2006.
  
  

Service:

• Director of Academic Affairs, Korean Statistical Society, 2023-2024.


• EB of International Statisical Review, 2022 - present.


• AE of Journal of Korean Statistical Society, 2006 - present.

Research Interests:

• Covariance Matrix.
• Fused Lasso Regression.
• Order Related Statistical Inference.
• Mixture Model and Hidden Markov Model

Awards:

• Teaching Award, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, 2019.


• Research Award, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, 2011.


• Research Award, Yonsei University, 2007.


• 17th Research Award, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, 2007.


• Teaching Award, Yonsei University, 2007.


• Teaching Award, Statistics, Stanford University, 2000.

Project and Research Grants:

• EPR Guideline (project). Korean EPR Cooperation, 2006.


• Research Grant from College of Economics, Yonsei University. 2006.


• Survey and Data Anal. Guideline in Risk Assessment(project). Korea FDA. 2007.


• Research Grant from College of Economics, Yonsei University. 2007.


• Research Grant from College of Economics, Yonsei University. 2006.


• "Geometric Programming in Statistics" New Researcher Grant, Korea Research Foundation. 2007.


• "Constrained Statistical Inference" New Researcher Grant, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, 2008-2009.


• "Multiscale Logistic Regression" New Researcher Grant, Seoul National University, 2008.


• "Statistical Methods for Strong Gene-Gene Interataion", Basic Science Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation , 2008.


• "Ranked Set Sampling", Basic Science Research Grant, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, 2008-2010.


• "Constrained Statistical Inference", Basic Science Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2009-2012.


• "Order Related Statistical Inference", Mid-Career Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2011-2014.


• "Data Science and Knowlege Discovery", SRC, Korea Research Foundation, 2011-2018. (Co-investigator)


• "Inference on High-dimensional Covariance Matrix", Mid-Career Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2017-2021.


• "Inference on High-dimensional Multivariate Statistics", Mid-Career Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation, 2021-2024.