I am an assistant professor of International Relations and Korean Studies at Leiden University, where I work at the intersection of digital humanities and quantitative social science to study questions of national identity, migration, and political change.

Mainly, I am interested in relationship between institutions and individual preferences, such as the relationship between democracy and national identity. I use surveys and experimental designs to analyze public opinion and political behavior, but I am working increasingly more on machine learning for text analysis and developing pipelines that integrate OCR, vision-language models, and large language models to analyze large quantities of text.

Motivated and informed by my research, I teach courses on computational text analysis, comparative politics, and Korean studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Beyond Leiden, I serve as Director of Research at SinoNK.com, a Senior Fellow at the European Centre for North Korean Studies at the University of Vienna, and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab at the University of Toronto. These affiliations reflect my commitment to publicly engaged scholarship and policy-relevant research.

I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in Global Affairs and Policy from Yonsei University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Harding University.

To learn more about my current work, visit the Projects page for an overview of active research, or explore my Research for peer-reviewed articles, working papers, and other scholarly output.