Awards & Service

Recognition and professional service

Selected Awards

• 09/2025-presentKUBS Research Fellow, Korea University Business School
• 06/2025Best Paper Award, Korea Corporation Management Association
• 05/2026M&SOM 2025 Meritorious Service Award, INFORMS
• 03/2026SK Distinguished Research Award, Korea University Business School
• 08/2023Best Paper Award, Korean Academic Society of Business Administration Convergence Conference
• 05/2023Young Scholar Prize, Korean Production and Operations Management Society
• 08/2022MK Emerging Scholar Paper Award, Maeil Business Newspress
• 06/2022UTD Distinguished Research Award, Korea University Business School
• 05/2022Seok-Top Award for Research Excellence, Korea University
• 03/2022UTD Distinguished Research Award, Korea University Business School
• 09/2021; 03/2021SK Distinguished Research Award, Korea University Business School
• 06/2020Prominent Scholar Award, College of Business, Oregon State University
• 11/2018Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award, DSI 2018 Annual Conference, Chicago
• 08/2016Rising OM Scholar Award, Kenan-Flagler Business School
• 04/2016M. Wayne DeLozier Award, Kenan-Flagler Business School
• 2012-2016Kenan-Flagler Business School PhD Financial Award
• 2004-2011Full scholarships from Korea University Business School, Alumni Association of Korea University, Cheonman Scholarship Association, and Korea Sanhak Foundation

Teaching Recognition

• 06/2025; 06/2024KUBS Teaching Award (Global MBA Operations Management), Korea University
• 05/2026Excellence in Teaching Award (Business Statistics; 2 sessions), Korea University
• 11/2025; 06/2024; 11/2022Seok-Top Award for Teaching Excellence, Korea University
• 11/2025; 04/2022Excellence in Teaching Award (Business Statistics), Korea University
• 11/2023Excellence in Teaching Award (Operations Management), Korea University
• 11/2021Excellence in Teaching Award (Service Operations Management), Korea University
• 06/2019Betty and Forrest Simmons Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, College of Business, Oregon State University

Professional Service

• M&SOM Webmaster, 08/2016-08/2023
• Korean Production and Operations Management Society (KOPOMS): Director, 01/2022-Present; Graduate Students Committee Chair, 01/2023-12/2023; Editorial Board Member, 01/2023-Present
• Korea Logistics Society: Director, 01/2024-Present
• Korea Productivity Association: Director, 01/2023-Present; Academic Committee Chair, 01/2023-12/2023
• Academic Society of Global Business Administration: Workshop Organizing Chair, 09/2021-12/2021
• Korea University Business School: Advisor, KULSOM (Operations Club in KUBS), 09/2020-Present; Advisor, KUBS Scholar, 07/2022-08/2023
• College of Business, Oregon State University: PROT Committee, 09/2019-06/2020; Research Committee, 09/2018-06/2019

Editorial Review Boards

• Journal of Operations Management (2023-present)
• Decision Sciences (2023-present)

Reviewing

Journals: Management Science; Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; Production and Operations Management; Journal of Operations Management; Service Science; Decision Sciences.

• M&SOM Service SIG (2020; 2021; 2022; 2023)
• INFORMS BOM Best Working Paper Competition (2023)

Memberships

• INFORMS
• MSOM
• POMS
• DSI
• AOM