Ph.D., Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. USA.

Advisors : Drs. Richard A. Wysk and Ling Rothrock M.S., Industrial Engineering, Pohang University of Sceince & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, S. Korea
Advisor : Dr. Yushin Hong B.S., Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, S. Korea.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Discrete Event System Modeling & Control
• Machine Learning
• Smart Manufacturing Systems
• Information Delivery, Diffusion, and Retrieval
• Service Modeling & Testing
• Pervasive Computing Applications         

EMPLOYMENT

• Mar 2023 – Present: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanyang University ERICA, South Korea
• Mar 2021 – Feb 2023: Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Kyonggi University, South Korea
• Sep 2019 – Feb 2021: Guest Researcher, Systems Integration Division, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD, USA
• Sep 2019 – Feb 2021: Post Doctoral Fellow , Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
• Nov 2010 – Jun 2015: Researcher, IT Converged Process Research Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Ansan, Korea

EDUCATION

•   Sep 2015 – Sep 2019, Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA 
• Mar 2009 – Feb 2011, M.S., Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea 
• Mar 2005 – Feb 2009, B.S., Mechanical and Information & Industrial Engineering,  Hanyang University (ERICA), Ansan, Korea