Curriculum Vitae

Education:

  • Ph.D in Mathematics (May, 1999)
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
    • Thesis Advisor: Bruce C. Berndt
    • Thesis: The Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and A Certain Quotient of Eta Functions Found in Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook
  • M. Ed in Mathematics Education (August, 1992)
    • Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
    • Thesis Advisor: Jae Keol Park
    • Thesis: Prime Ideals Determining Dedekind Domains
  • B.S. in Mathematics (February, 1990)
    • Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea

Professional Experience

  • Kangwon National University, Professor 2017.9 - present
  • Kangwon National University, Associate Professor 2011.8 - 2017.8
  • Associate Member, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, 2011~ Present
  • KAIST, Research Associate Professor 2008.9 – 2011.8
  • University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Scholar 2009.12 – 2011.1
  • Postech, Research Assistant Professor 2007.8 – 2008.8
  • Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Assistant Professor 2003.8 – 2007.8
  • Ohio State University, Ross Assistant Professor 2001.1 – 2003.9

Awards & Grants:

  • Research Grant, Mid-Career Researcher Program, National Research Foundation in Korea (March 2022 - February 2026)
  • 2019 Ministerial Citation, Ministry of Science and ICT (May 2019)
  • Research Grant, General Research Program, National Research Foundation in Korea (June 2016 - May 2022)
  • Research Service Project (A study on the development of in-depth planning for 4th BK21), National Research Foundation in Korea (2019 - 2020)
  • KIAS Allumni Award (September, 2016)
  • Research Grant, National Research Foundation in Korea (September 2011 - August 2016)
  • Structured Quartet Research Ensembles (SQuaREs), American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California, USA, Feb. 18~22, 2013
  • Research Grant, National Research Foundation in Korea (May 2009 - April 2012)
  • SQuaREs program, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California, USA, Oct. 17~21, 2011
  • KIAS Academic Award, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (September, 2005)
  • Travel Grant, Association for Women in Mathematics, USA (February, 2000)
Publications

Talks:

  • "Patterns, Proofs, and Concepts," 2025 KRIMS-IMDS Symposium, February 27, 2025
  • "Partitions, Modular Forms, q-series and more," Modular Forms and Multiple Zeta Values, Kindai University, Osaka, February 17~22, 2025
  • "q-series and Integer partitions: From Euler to Prime Detection," 2025 KWMS Winter Workshop, Ewha Womens University, Seoul, February 5, 2025
  • 2025 KRIMS Workshop: Quantum Machine Learning and Coding Theory, IBIS Myeongdong, Seoul, January 6~8, 2025
  • "From Euler to Today: A journey through Euler’s partition identity," 32nd KIAS Combinatorics Workshop, Busan, December 19~21, 2024
  • "Modularity of Partition Generating Functions," Number Theory Seminar, Korea University, Seoul, September 24, 2024
  • "Modularity of partition generating functions," KIAS-KRIMS-KWMS Summer School on Modular Forms and Partition Theory, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, June 24~27, 2024
  • "On d-distinct Partitions," 2024 Legacy of Ramanujan, Penn State University, State College, PA, June 6~9, 2024
  • Panelist, Forum on Research Integrity in Mathematics, Korean Mathematical Society, KOFST, December 15, 2023
  • "Hecke operator and divisibility," Inaugural meeting of Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM), International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR), Bengaluru, April 24~28, 2023
  • KAST Roundtable Discussions, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Seongnam, November 11, 2022
  • 2022 KWMS Leader's Forum, Chosun University, Gwangju, October 17, 2022
  • Women in Mathematics, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, Japan, September 7~9, 2022
  • Arithmetic of Function Fields and Related Topics, Busan, August 15~17, 2022
  • Arithmetic of Modular Curves and Modular Forms, Busan, February 17~19, 2022
  • "Arithmetic properties of weakly holomorphic modular functions of arbitrary level," UIUC Number Theory Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, September 21, 2021
  • "Arithmetic properties of weakly holomorphic modular functions of arbitrary level," SNU Number Theory Seminar, May 6, 2021
  • "Arithmetic properties of the Fourier coeffcients of weakly holomorphic modular functions of arbitrary level," Vanderbilt Number Theory Seminar, April 21, 2021
  • "Alder-Andrews type partition inequality," 2020 q-day, Seoul Tech, July 30, 2020
  • Yonsei University, February 3, 2020
  • "Hecke System of harmonic Maass functions and its applications on divisibility of Fourier coffcients of mock modular forms," SNU Number Theory Seminar, Seoul National University, 2019
  • "Generators of the Space of Harmonic Weak Maass Forms," Analytic and Combinatorial Number Theory: The Legacy of Ramanujan, A conference in Honor of Bruce C. Berndt's 80th Birthday, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, June 6~9, 2019
  • "Combinatorics and quantum modular forms," Yonsei University, Sep. 18, 2018
  • "The man who knew infinity," KAOS, Mar. 14, 2018
  • KIAS Combinatorics Workshop, KIAS, August 21~25, 2017
  • "On 2nd order mock theta functions," KKMS-CCMS Joint Meeting, Dankuk University, Cheonan, June 8~10, 2017
  • International Conference in Special Functions: Theory, Computation, and Applications 2017 (ICSF 2017), City University of Hong Kong, June 5~ 9, 2017
  • Mathematics Department Colloquium, Sogang University, Seoul, March 31, 2017
  • CIMPA research school of Number Theory and Applications on q-series, integer partitions and modular forms, CIMPA-Algeria Number Theory and its Applications, TIPAZA, Algeria, May 22~ June 4, 2016
  • "Mock and Quantum Modular Forms," Workshop on Number Theory, Coding Theory and Related Topics, The K-Hotel, Kyeonju, April 15~16, 2016
  • "Rademacher's expansion of zero for several q-series," Colloquium, Ajou University, Suwon, March 11, 2016
  • "Arithmetic properties of harmonic weak Maass forms for some small half integral weights," Pure and Applied Number Theory School, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences(NIMS), August 11, 2015
  • "Mathematics and Women in Korea," ICWM 2014 (International Congress of Women Mathematicians 2014), Ewha Womans University Aug. 12, Coex Aug.14, 2014
  • "Mock modular forms," International Workshop on Number theory, Partitions, q-series and Rogers-Ramanujan Identities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 6~7, 2014
  • "Bases for the spaces of weakly harmonic Maass forms for some half integral weights," East Asia Number Theory Conference 2014, Fukuoka, Japan, January 20~24, 2014
  • "Numbers appering in Integer Partitions," Undergraduate Student Lecture Series, Kyunghee University, November 12, 2013
  • Meeting of Young Number Theorists(MYNT), Chungju Cheongpung Resort, August 27~29,2013
  • 2013 KWMS the 10th International Conference, Korea Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul, June 20~21, 2013
  • "Congruences of Integer Partitions," Colloquium, Kongju University, Kongju, May 24, 2013
  • "Periodicity of Integer Partitions," Colloquium, Konkuk University, Seoul, Nov. 15, 2012
  • "Periodicity of Integer Partitions," Colloquium, Gangreung Wonju University, Gangreung, Nov. 13, 2012
  • "Mock Modular Forms of Small Weights," Invited Lecture, Algebra Session, 2012 KMS Annual Fall Meeting, Daejeon, Oct. 5~6, 2012
  • 2012 KIAS Workshop: q-series and Related Topics, Pusan, Aug.24~26, 2012
  • "Weak Maass Poincare Series and Mock Modular Forms," 1st EU-US conference on Automorphic Forms and related topics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Aug. 6~10, 2012
  • "Grid for weak Maass forms," Colloquium, Yonsei University, Seoul, May 11, 2012
  • "Weakly harmonic Poincare series," Modular forms,mock theta functions, and applications, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Feb. 27~Mar 1, 2012
  • Workshop on number theory and related topics, Inha University, Dec. 27~28, 2011
  • "Mock theta functions and orthogonal polynomials," 2011 Korea-Japan Number Theory Seminar, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Nov. 9~12, 2011
  • "Ramanujan’s reciprocity theorems and mock theta functions," The Arithmetic of function fields and related topics, ASARC Workshop, Donguk University, Gyeonju, August 16~19, 2011
  • "q-hypergeometric series in Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Modular Forms," SungKyunKwan University, June 17, 2011
  • "Revisit to Ramanujan’s reciprocity theorem," International conference on asymptotics and special functions, City University of Hong Kong, May 30~ June 3, 2011
  • "Partitions weighted by the parity of the cranks," Illinois Number Theory Fest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, May 16 - 20, 2007
  • "Partitions weighted by the parity of the crank," KIAS Number Theory Seminar, Mar. 22, 2007
  • "The Theory of Partitions: Where does it belong?," KIAS Colloquium, Mar. 21, 2007
  • "Generalizations of Two Fundamental Product Identities and Their Applications," KIAS Number Theory Seminar, May 11, 2006

Workshops and Conferences Organized:

Academic Services:

  • Member of the Fundamental Research Promotion Committee of Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, 2025 - 2026
  • Vice President of the Korean Mathematical Society, 2025 - 2026
  • Head of the Institute of Liberal Education, Kangwon National University, 2024 -2026
  • Director of the KNU Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2023 - 2025
  • President of the Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences, 2023
  • Member of the KMS International Exchange Committee, 2023 - 2026
  • Vice Ppresident of the Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences, 2022
  • Committee Member for Education & Publication for Korea Federation of Women's Science & Technology Association, 2022 - 2023
  • Committee Member for Science Communication for Korea Federation of Women's Science & Technology Association, 2020 - 2021
  • Member of the Project Steering Committee for the 4th BK21 Program, 2020 - 2022
  • Delegate of the College of Natural Science for Kangwon National University Faculty Council, 2020 - 2021
  • Member of the Selection and Evaluation Steering Committee for the 4th BK21 Program, 2020
  • Vice-president of Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences, 2019 - 2020
  • Review Board, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2018 - 2020
  • Board Member of the Kangwon National University Faculty Women's Association, 2017 - 2019
  • Board Member for the Korean Mathematical Society, 2017 - 2018
  • ICM 2014 Organizing Committee on Social Activities and Logistics, 2013 - 2014
  • Board Member for the Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences, June 2013~December 2014, 2016