Methodologies

As a computational social scientist, I use NLP, text analysis, network analysis, ML classifiers, and LLMs to analyze mostly digital trace data. With this background, I present and publish in interdisciplinary venues such as ACL and AAAI, but communication is my core domain. 

Awards and Honors 

Top Paper Award, National Communication Association (NCA) – Political Communication Div. (First-Author, 2025)

Top Poster Award, U.S.–Korea Conference (UKC) – Social Science Tech Div. (First-Author, 2025)

Hyundai Motor CMK Foundation Scholarship/Grant Recipient for Research in Intelligent Information Technology (2022–2027)

Principal Candidate for a Fulbright Graduate Student Program Award, U.S. Department of State (2023)

Entrance Examination Award (2017) and Summa Cum Laude Graduate (2021), Kyung Hee University

Education

UC Davis • Doctor of Philosophy (2023 - Present) in Communication with Designated Emphasis of Computational Social Science 

Kyung Hee University • Master of Art (2021 - 2023) in Journalism and Communication

Kyung Hee University • Bachelor of Art (2017 - 2021) in Journalism and Communication

News 

[Nov. 2025] I will be presenting at the 2025 National Communication Association (NCA) in Denver, CO. 

[Sep. 2025] I will be giving a lightning talk at the 2025 Trust and Safety Conference at Stanford University, CA. 

[Aug. 2025] I presented at the UKC by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) in Atlanta, GA. 

[Jul. 2025] My leading project was presented at the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping, Sweden. 

[Jun. 2025]  I presented at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Copenhagen, Denmark. You can read our proceedings paper here

[May. 2025]  I presented at the ACM WebSci'25 PhD symposium at Rutgers University, NJ.

[May. 2025] My team paper was accepted to the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Main Conference). You can read our paper here

[May. 2025] I presented at the 2025 Comm Horizons Conference at UC Davis, CA. I also served as the chair for the session Who We Are Online: Identity, Emotion, and Wellbeing in Social Media Use.

[Sep. 2024] I gave a lightning talk in the AI for Content Moderation session at the Trust & Safety conference at Stanford University, CA. 

[Sep. 2024] I was invited as a guest speaker to the Computational Multimodal Communication (CMMC) Lab meeting where I spoke about using LLMs for multimodal classification. 

[Jun. 2024] I presented two first-author papers at the International Communication Association (ICA) in Political Communication and Computational Methods divisions in Gold Coast, Australia.  

[Jun. 2024] I participated in the 2024 ICA Hackathon for Computational Methods in Brisbane, Australia. 

[May. 2024] I presented at the 2024 Comm Horizons Conference at UC Davis, CA. 

[May. 2023] I presented at the Political Communication Graduate Preconference at the International Communication Association (ICA) in Toronto, Canada. 

[Jul. 2022] I presented at the Sunbelt conference of the International Network for Social Network (INSNA) in Cairns, Australia. 

Media 

https://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=309437 북 매체 ‘조선의 오늘’은 우리 보수 진보 정부 어떻게 평가했나

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https://communication.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-communication-scholars-shine-nca-111th-annual-convention UC Davis Communication Scholars Shine at the NCA 111th Annual Convention