I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Southern Methodist University. I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Georgia in 2018.

Research Interests

• Statistical Shape Analysis
• Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
• Empirical Likelihood
• Ranked Set Sampling

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2018
• M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2016
• M.A. in Economics, Seoul National University, 2013
• B.E. in Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2011
• B.S. in Mathematics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, 2011

Recent News

• (10/2024) Marc Pham presented his research “How Long Will I Live? AI Tells All” at 2024 Fall Research Symposium. Great job!
• (05/2024) Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.
• (12/2023) Awarded a Career Development Award from the Korean International Statistical Society.
• (07/2023) Awarded a grant R15 from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health as PI (Co-I: Tu Dan at UTSW): “Topology-based tumor analysis for medical images.”
• (06/2023) Awarded SMU Provost’s Science & Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowships as Co-PI led by PI Minjun Kim at SMU: “Soft-microbots for vitreous hemorrhage mitigation and accelerated recovery.”
• (05/2023) Awarded SMU Lyle Seed Funding as Co-PI led by PI Eojin Han at SMU: “Towards joint predictive-prescriptive data analytics.”
• (04/2023) Awarded SMU Dedman College Dean’s Research Council Grant as PI: “Topology-based tumor analysis for medical images”.

Research Opportunities

If you are interested in research opportunities, please contact me.