Current Status

Professor, College of Business, Sogang University, March 2009 ~ present.

Associate and Assistant Professor, College of Business, Sogang University, March 2001 ~ February 2009.

Employment

· Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, Middle Tennessee State University, August 1999~December 2000. 

· Adjunct Faculty, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Spring 2010 ~present.

· Visiting Professor, Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2014 - December 2014, January 2007 - December 2007, January 1999 - August 1999.

· Adjunct Faculty, Whitmore School of Business, University of New Hampshire, Fall 2006 ~Fall 2008.

· Assistant Researcher, Korean Institute of Science and Technology(KIST), February 1991 ~August 1991.

Education

· Ph.D. in Operations and Technology Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1998.

· M.B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 1995.

· B.A., Sogang University, Business Administration, Seoul, Korea, January 1991.

Areas of Teaching Interest

· Management of Technology

· Operations/Process Management    

· New Product Development    

Academic Honors, Scholarship and Fellowship

· 2023 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Service Management Society

· 2021 Best Researcher Award, Sogang University

· 2021 Best Teacher Award, Sogang University

· 2020 Best Teacher Award, Sogang Business School

· 2020 Hyunwoo Kwak Sooil POM Lifetime Academic Achievement Award.

· 2017 Best Teacher Award, Sogang Business School

· 2016 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Academic Society of Business Administration

· List of Campus-wide Excellent Teacher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013~2019.

· Best Teacher Award, Graduate School of Business at Sogang University, 2009. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

· 2013 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Service Management Society

· 2011 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

· 2010 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Operations Management Society

· 2009 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies

· 2009 Winner of Best Paper Award by Korean Operations Management Society

· Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2007-2008, 2009-2010.

· Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-2007.

· Best Teacher of the Year Award, by College of Business at Sogang University, 2004.

· Best Researcher of the Year Award, by Sogang University, 2003, 2006.

· Korean Honor Scholarship 1996-1997 (Awarded by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea).

· Seymour Sudman Scholarship 1995-1996 from the University of Illinois.

· Korean-American Scholarship for 1995-1996 (By the Korean-American Scholarship Foundation Midwest Region).

· Member of Phi Kappa Phi since 1995.

· University of Illinois Fellowship - Decision and Information Science Award 1994-1995.

· Academic Excellence from the MBA program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995.

· Member of Beta Gamma Sigma since 1993.

· Rotary International Scholarship for 1992-1993.

· Cum Laude from Sogang University, 1991.

Service at University

· Vice President for Budget and Planning, Sogang University, February 2021~present.

· Head, Department of Business Administration, Graduate School of Business, April 2019~January 2021.

· Faculty Director of Sogang International MBA, February 2019~January 2021.

· Associate Dean for Strategic Planning, Graduate School of Business, February 2017~January 2019.

· Director of Executive Program, Graduate School of Business, February 2017~January 2019.

· Acting Executive Vice President, Sogang University, October 2016~January 2017.

· Vice President for Public Affairs, Sogang University, April 2015~January 2017.

· Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Business, February 2015~April 2015.

· Head, Department of Business Administration, Graduate School of Business, January 2012~December 2013.

· Head, Department of Global Service Management, Graduate School of Business, September 2013~December 2013.

· Director, Research Institute for Management of Technology, March 2011~February 2013.

· Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Business, January · 2012~December 2013.

· Associate Dean for Strategic Planning, Graduate School of Business, January 2011~December 2011.

· Vice President for HR and Administration, Sogang University, July 2008 ~ August 2010.

· Vice President for Facilities, Sogang University, March 2009 ~ June 2009.

· Associate Dean for Public Relationship, Graduate School of Business, February 2008 ~ June 2008.

Service to Academia

· 2015-present, Vice president, Korean Operations Management Society

· 2019~2022, Area Editor, Korean Management Review

· 2013-2015, Area Editor, Korean Management Review

· 2005-2014, Area Editor, Journal of Korean Operations Management Society

· 2005-present, Board Committee Member, Korean Operations Management Society

· 2001-2006, Area Editor, Korean Management Science and Operations Research Journal

· 2004-2006, Area Editor, Korean Journal of Quality Management

· Ad hoc paper reviewers for Management Science, Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Computer and IE, etc.

Service to Ph.D. Student Education

· Suhyun Park, as a Thesis Advisor, 2024, placed at KnowledgeWorks, Seoul, S. Korea.

· Hyehyeon Baek, as a Thesis Advisor, 2023, IBK Investment & Security, Seoul, S. Korea.

· YoungPyo Jun, as a Thesis Advisor, 2022, KPMG Samjong Consulting Service, Seoul, S. Korea.

· Sangyoo Kim, as a Thesis Advisor, 2022, IBK Research Institute, Seoul, S. Korea.

· Jinyoung Choi, as a Thesis Advisor, 2019, Samsung Life Insurance, Seoul, S. Korea.

· Miri Kim, as a Thesis Advisor, 2017, Research Professor, Sogang University, Seoul, S. Korea.

· Jinhan Park, as a Thesis Advisor, 2015. Placed at Kyungnam University, S. Korea.

· Sanghyun Lee, as a Thesis Advisor, 2010. Placed at SahmYook University, S. Korea.

Service to Government

· Committee Member, Performance Evaluation of 13 Government-funded National Research Institutes in Korea.

· Korean Certified Public Account (CPA) Exam Provider, Management (Operations Management) Area.

· Evaluator, National Quality Award, Korean Standards Association and Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.