I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Operations at Yale School of Management, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Vahideh Manshadi. My research interests center on platform and policy design for social good. Drawing tools from data science, optimization, and mathematical modeling, I design data-driven solutions and analytical methods for resource allocation and matching problems in nonprofit and public sectors to help organizations amplify their social impact. I have worked on applications in refugee resettlement, diversity policies in labor markets, and food rescue. Much of my work has been grounded in close collaborations with platform-based nonprofit and public organizations, including Feeding America’s MealConnect and a national refugee resettlement agency. My research has been recognized by several awards, including the MSOM Best Student Paper Prize, the Auctions and Market Design Rothkopf Prize, the Service Science Best Student Paper Award (finalist), and the George Nicholson Student Paper Prize (finalist).
Prior to joining Yale, I earned a B.B.A. and a B.S. in Applied Statistics, followed by an M.S. in Management Science from Yonsei University. During this time, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Seongmoon Kim, focusing on data-driven portfolio optimization.
I am on the 2025-26 academic job market. You can find my CV here.
Upcoming Talks
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:45PM (Building B Level 3 B310)
“Who to Offer, and When: Redesigning Feeding America’s Real-Time Donation System”
(Session SD50 – Socially Aware Service Operations)Sunday, Oct. 26, 4:15PM (Building A Level 3 A301)
“Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement”
(Session SE01 – George Nicholson Student Paper Competition)Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2:45PM (Building A Level 3 A305)
“Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement”
(Session TD05 – Service Science Award Session III)
Papers
- Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement, with Kirk Bansak, Vahideh Manshadi, Rad Niazadeh, and Elisabeth Paulson, Management Science, Accepted, 2025.
- Finalist, George Nicholson Best Student Paper Competition, 2025 (Winner TBA)
- Finalist, Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2025 (Winner TBA)
- Winner, MSOM Best Student Paper Competition, 2024
- Winner, Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize (awarded by INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Section), 2024
- Accepted to The NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, 2024
- Conference version accepted to The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2024
- Oral presentation at The fourth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), 2024
- Media: “Using Operations Research to Improve the Refugee Resettlement Process.” Yale Insights
- Why the Rooney Rule Fumbles: Limitations of Interview-stage Diversity Interventions in Labor Markets, with Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Vahideh Manshadi, and Faidra Monachou, Major Revision at Operations Research, 2025.
- Conference version accepted to The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2025
- Conference version accepted at The 5th ACM Conference on Equity & Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization (EAAMO), 2025
Who to Offer, and When: Redesigning Feeding America’s Real-Time Donation Tool, with Vahideh Manshadi and Daniela Saban, Working Paper, 2025.
Portfolio Evaluation with the Vector Distance Based on Portfolio Composition, with Heonbae Jeon, Hongseon Kim, Seung Bum Soh, and Seongmoon Kim, Mathematics, 2023.
- Improving Portfolio Investment Performance with Distance-Based Portfolio Combining Algorithms, with Hongseon Kim, Seungbum Soh, and Seongmoon Kim, Journal of Financial Research, 2022.