Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Research Areas

  • Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education
  • Professional Development

Additional information

  • Professional Experience
    • Lecturer in Discipline of Professional Development and English Communication as a Second Language, Columbia University, 2018-
    • Graduate Associate Instructor of Academic Composition, The Ohio State University, 2013-2017
    • Chinese Teacher, Millcreek Elementary School, Lexington, KY, 2011-2013
    • Math, ESL Reading Teacher, Bryan Station High School, Lexington, KY, 2010-2011
    • English and Chinese Teacher, Bugae Girl’s Public High School, South Korea, 2005-2006
  • Professional Affiliations
    • International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning (IAPLL)
    • American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
    • Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW)
    • TESOL International Association
    • New York City TESOL (NYC TESOL)
  • Education
    • PhD, Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education, The Ohio State University
    • MS, Teaching English as a Second Language, Asbury University
    • BA, Chinese, English Linguistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
    • BS, Mechanical Engineering, Cheonnam National University, South Korea

Research Areas

  • Data Analytics
  • Economics & Computation
  • Financial Engineering
  • Game Theory
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Blockchain (Web3.0)
  • Cryptoeconomics
  • Digital Finance & Technology
  • Energy & Power
  • Financial Technology

Additional information

  • Professional Experience
    • Full Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2024–Present
    • Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2019–2023
    • Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2014–2018
    • Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, 2013–2014
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, Swiss Institute of Finance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, June – July 2011
    • Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University 2010–2013
    • Full-time Associate, Derivatives Analysis, Goldman Sachs International, London, U.K., 2009 – 2010
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Econometric Society, International Association for Quantitative Finance
    • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
    • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    • Bachelier Finance Society
  • Honors & Awards
    • JP Morgan AI Faculty Research award, 2019
    • NSF CAREER award, 2018
    • Bar-Ilan Prize for research in financial mathematics, 2016
    • Institute for New Economic Thinking Award, 2013–2014
    • Marie Curie fellowship, 2003–2004
  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
    • Minor, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
    • MS, Computer Science,  California Institute of Technology
    • BS, Computer Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Additional Information

  • Research Areas
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
    • Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning
    • Causal Inference
    • Economics & Computation
    • Data Analytics
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Business Analytics
    • Digital Finance & Technology
    • E-Commerce
    • Financial Technology
    • Matching Platforms
    • Real Estate Technology
    • Urban Logistics