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, with broader interests in socially responsible and sustainable operations. My work has been mainly motivated by collaborations with nationwide nonprofit and public organizations that operate through modern technology and platform-based systems, including Feeding America’s MealConnect and a national refugee resettlement agency. Combining tools from data science, operations research, and economics, I develop decision-support tools that provide actionable recommendations to amplify the social impact of such organizations, while also generating policy insights with broader societal implications.
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 academic job market for 2025–26. You can find my CV here.
Working Paper/In Progress
- Dynamic Matching with Post-Allocation Service and its Application to Refugee Resettlement, with Kirk Bansak, Vahideh Manshadi, Rad Niazadeh, and Elisabeth Paulson, Major Revision at Management Science, 2025.
- Finalist, Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2025
- 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 System, with Vahideh Manshadi and Daniela Saban, Working in Progress, 2024.
(Pre-Ph.D.) Publication
Improving Portfolio Investment Performance with Distance-Based Portfolio Combining Algorithms, with Hongseon Kim, Seungbum Soh, and Seongmoon Kim, Journal of Financial Research, 2022.