Education
Ph.D., Operations Research
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Dissertation:
“Hybrid is Good: Stochastic Optimization and Applied Statistics for OR”
M.S., Applied Statistics
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
B.S., Industrial Engineering
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Department of Industrial Engineering
- Admitted with highest honors
- Graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude)
Professional Experience
Operations Research Analyst
JDA Software Group, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
- Analyzed hotel and cruise line booking and sales data
- Developed price elasticity estimation and demand forecasting systems for a price optimization solution for hospitality clients
Summer Researcher
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York
- Analyzed traffic time series data
- Developed traffic decision support system (DSS) architecture and optimizer (control) algorithms in real-time traffic management centers
Summer Researcher
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
- Analyzed retail sales transaction data for promotion planning
- Developed spatial-temporal data mining statistics techniques for real-time anomaly detection
for road user (congestion) charging - Developed optimization models for a back-office enforcement process of vehicle records
Professional Service
Secretary/Treasurer
INFORMS Revenue Management. and Pricing Section, 2015-2016
Revenue Management and Pricing Track Organizer
POMS Annual Conference, 2016 (13 sessions with 54 talks)
Revenue Management and Pricing Cluster Organizer
INFORMS Annual Conference, 2015 (48 Sessions with 185 talks)
Conference Session Chair
POMS Annual Conference, 2015
INFORMS Annual Conference, 2011-Present
Paper Competition Judge
MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2014-Present
Invited Journal Reviewer
Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics
Honors
INFORMS Future Academician Doctoral Colloquium
Austin, Texas, 2010
Thank a Teacher Recipient
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010 (Honored at the Dean Griffin Day Luncheon)
Award for Top Performance on Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007 (Perfect Score)
Scholarship Recipient
Dongbu Group, 2006, 2007
Presidential Honor Recipient
Seoul National University, 2004 (Ranked First in the
Industrial Engineering Department, Class of 2004)
Best Student Scholarship
Seoul National University, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Math Olympiad
Seoul, Korea, 1993 (Honorable Mention)