Professor

Research Interests

• Data-Driven Modeling, Forecasting, and Analysis of Service Operations

• Capacity Planning/Management for Industrial Applications such as Logistics and Healthcare Delivery Systems.

• Development of Optimization Methodologies: Quantum-Inspired Heuristics, Stochastic Integer Programming (Sample Average Approximation), Benders Decomposition, Branch-and-Bound, Dynamic Programming, Meta-Heuristics, Simulation

• Applicability of Machine/Deep Learning Methodologies to Operations Management

Academic Appointment

Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (Mar. 2019 - Present)

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management of Technology (Mar. 2023 - Present)

• Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management of Technology (Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2023)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA (Aug. 2016 - Feb. 2019)

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Operations Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine

• Mentor: Prof. Vikram Tiwari, PhD

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA (Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2018)

• Data Science Fellow, Data Science Visions Trans-Institutional Program

Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

• Ph.D in Industrial Engineering

• Dissertation: Models and Optimization for Elective Surgery Scheduling under Uncertainty Considering Patient Health Condition

• Advisor: Prof. Yuehwern Yih, PhD

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea

• M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

• B.S. in Industrial Systems and Information Engineering

Professional Activities

Track Organizer and Chair in Conferences

• Industrial Engineering and Operations Management conference, Washington, DC, USA, Sep. 2018 (Track Title: Healthcare Operations and Services)

Session Organizer and Chair in Conferences

• Fall Conference of Korea Productivity Association, Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 2023 (Session Title: Session 06) 

• Spring Conference of Korea Institute of Industrial Engineers/Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society, Jeju, South Korea, Jun. 2023 (Session Title: G6 4th Industrial Revolution/Industrial Artificial Intelligence 16) 

• Spring Conference of Korea Productivity Association, Seoul, South Korea, May 2023 (Session Title: Session 02) 

• Spring Conference of Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society/Korea Institute of Industrial Engineers, Jeju, South Korea, Jun. 2022 (Session Title: G11 Industrial Artificial Intelligence 6) 

• Spring Conference of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers, Jeju, South Korea, Jun. 2021 (Session Titles: G4 Production/Logistics, H4 Production/Logistics)

• Spring Conference of Korean Operations Research and Management Society, Gwangju, South Korea, Apr. 2019 (Session Title: Mathematical Optimization Theory and Applications)

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Nov. 2018 (Session Title: Managing Capacity of Surgical and Procedural Areas)

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, USA, Oct. 2017 (Session Title: Managing Surgical and Inpatient Capacity)

• POMS Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, May 2017 (Session Title: Operating Rooms and Hospital Staff Scheduling )

Student Poster Competition Organizer in Symposium

• Vanderbilt Data Science Symposium, Nashville, TN, USA, Mar. 2018

Roundtable Discussion Leader

• Synapse Mini-Conference by the POMS College of Healthcare Operations, Seattle, WA, USA, May 2017 (Discussion Topic: Assignment of Anesthesiologists to Non-Operating Room Anesthesia Cases)

Honors/Awards/Scholarships

• The Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University (2016)

• Summer Purdue Research Foundation Grant, Purdue University (2015)

• The Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University (2015)

• The Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University  (2013)

• The Songhyun Prize (award to one distinguished graduate of Industrial and Systems Engineering), KAIST (2009)

• National Scholarships (full tuition support for graduate study at KAIST), South Korea (2007)

• Semester High Honors, Best Honors Scholarships (full tuition support), Korea University (2005)