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Curriculum Vitae

So Young Kim

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Political Science

Director, STP Undergraduate Program Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy (STP)

College of Cultural Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)

CONTACT

Email: [email protected] ([email protected])

Phone: (O) 82-42-350-4846, (H) 82-42-864-4112

Address: Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)

291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu

Daejeon 305-701 Republic of Korea

EDUCATION _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 2004

M.S. Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS), Northwestern

University, 1999 (first international student of political science obtaining a degree with

MMSS)

M.A. Department of Political Science, Seoul National University, 1995 (first graduate student admitted after taking a minor in political science)

B.A. Department of English Language Education, Seoul National University, 1993

APPOINTMENT _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Visiting Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Spring 2012

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science & Technology (joint appointment with the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences), KAIST, 2009-2012

mailto:[email protected]



Assistant Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, KAIST, February 2007 – January

2009

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, August 2004 –

December 2006 (first Korean political science student at Northwestern appointed to a tenure-

track position in an American university)

Data Analyst for the Ceasefire Program Assessment Project, Chicago Community Policing

Evaluation Consortium sponsored by the Illinois Department of Justice, 2004-2006

Data Archivist, Social Science Computing Services, University of Chicago, February – July 2004

Research Graduate Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2002-2004

Data Analyst for the Project on Hispanic Churches in American Public Life, Research Director:

Professor Gaston Espinosa, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Claremont

McKenna College, 2003-2007

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Subcommittee for Research, KAIST Long-Term Vision Committee, 2013

R&D Program Evaluation Roundtable Member, Ministry of Science, ICT and Planning, 2013

Secretary, International Collaboration Committee, Korea Federation of Women’s Science & Technology Association, 2013

Program Committee Member, Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation, Georgia Institute

of Technology, 2013

Governing Board Member, Asia-Pacific Political Science Association, 2013

Editorial Board Member, R&D InI, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP),

2013

Regular Columnist, Asia Business Daily, since August 2013

RESEARCH _____________________________________________________________________________________________

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Science & Technology Policy

R&D Policy

Public R&D Funding Rationales R&D Evaluation Methodology and Metrics

Basic Science Policy

Big Science Policy


Other S&T Issues

Public Views of Science & Technology Issues

Use of Scientific Expertise in Democracy

Redistributive Implications of S&T Policy

Women S&T Workforce Policy

International Political Economy

S&T Investment & Performance in Global Economic Recession

Global Mobility of Intellectual Workers and S&T Workforce

Varieties of Governance Regimes of Emerging Technologies

Quantitative Social Science Methodologies:

Nonrandom Nonresponses

Missing Data Problem

Multilevel Data Analysis

Dynamic Panel Models

PUBLICATIONS (Underlined: first & corresponding author)

Kim, So Young and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. 2014. “Cross-National Public Opinion on Climate Change: The Effects of Affluence and Vulnerability,” Global Environmental Politics 14(1): 79-106

(SSCI, #3 in political science, Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports)

Kim, So Young. 2013. “Government R&D Funding in Economic Downturns: Testing the Varieties of Capitalism Conjecture,” Science and Public Policy 40(5): 1-14 (SSCI)

Kim, So Young. 2013. “A Counterfactual Analysis of Publicly Funded R&D Evaluation Incorporating Ex-ante Risk,” Science, Technology, and Innovation Review 4(2): 15-54

Kim, So Young. 2012. “Technological Kuznets Curve? Technology, Inequality and Government Policy,” Asian Research Policy 3(1): 33-49

Kim, So Young and Russell Jeung. 2012. “Asian Americans, Religion, and the 2008 Presidential

Election,”in Religion, Race, and Barack Obama's New Democratic Pluralism edited by Gaston

Espinosa, Routledge

Kim, So Young. 2011. “Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Support for Climate Policies in Asia: Evidence from Recent Polls,” Journal of Asian Studies 70(2): 1-13 (SSCI)

Kim, So Young. 2010. “Ministry of the Environment,” “Ministry of Science & Technology,”

“Nanotechnology Promotion Act of 2002,” “National Nanotechnology Development Plan,” and “South Korea,” entries for the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience & Society edited by David Guston,

Sage Publications


Kim, So Young. 2010. “Do Asian Values Exist? Empirical Tests of the Four Dimensions of Asian Values,” Journal of East Asian Studies 10(2): 315-44, 2010 (SSCI)

Kim, So Young. 2008. “Asian Americans, Religion, and the American Presidency,” in Religion,

Race, Pluralism & the Presidency edited by Gaston Espinosa, Rowman & Littlefield

Kim, So Young. 2007. “Openness, External Risk, and Volatility: Implications for the Compensation Hypothesis,” International Organization 61 (1): 181-216 (SSCI)

Kim, So Young. 2006. “Globalization and Perceptions of Economic Insecurity,” Journal of

International and Area Studies 13 (2): 37-53

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Identifying “Strategic Research Areas” for Basic Research.

Project Report for the National Research Foundation, 2013 [313 pages, Korean]

Valuing Challenges and Measuring Social Impacts of Publicly Funded R&D. Project Report for

KISTEP, 2013 [156 pages, Korean]

A Paradigm Shift to Qualitative Evaluation of Public R&D. Project Report for KISTEP, 2012 [123

pages, Korean]

From a Divide to a Detour: Meanings and Practices of Convergence of Science and Technology with Humanities and Social Sciences, 22nd International Youth Forum Proceedings, 2011

Korea’s Science & Technology Vision 2040, KISTEP & Ministry of Education, Science and

Technology, 2010

A Mistaken Link and Divergent Paths: Globalization, Economic Insecurity, and Social Spending (1950-

99), Ph.D. Dissertation [Advisor: Michael Wallerstein], June 2004

Community Policing in Chicago at Ten: An Evaluation of Chicago’s Alternative Policing Strategy ,

Project Report published by the Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium, January

2004

“Statistical Analysis of Time-Series Data on Problem Solving,” Institute for Policy Research

Paper Series 27, coauthored with Professor Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University, February 2003

Community Policing in Chicago, Years Eight and Nine: An Evaluation of Chicago’s Alternative Policing

Strategy and Information Technology Initiative, Project Report published by the Chicago

Community Policing Evaluation Consortium, December 2002

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS [SINCE 2000] (Asterisk: Presentation without Paper)

“Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Basic Science Evaluation,” First IBS Research

Conference (Policy and Communication Session), Daejeon, November 28, 2013*


“Contesting and Operationalizing Qualitative Performance Indicators in Publicly Funded R&D

Programs,” International Conference on Public Policy, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2013*

“Rigor vs. Insight: Teaching Political Science to Science & Engineering Students,” presented at

the 10th Teaching and Learning Conference of the American Political Science Association,

February 8-10, 2013

“Creating a Developmental State out of “Nano”: Rationales and Rhetoric of Government

Funding for Nanotechnology in the Developing World,” presented at the 4S Conference,

Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, October 17-20, 2012

“Contending Rationales for Government Funding for Nanoscale Science and Technology in Asian Countries,” presented at the 12th Nano Korea Symposium, COEX, Seoul, August 16-18,

2012*

“Green Growth as a New Strategy of Development: the Case of South Korea,” presented at the

33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management, Washington, D.C.,

November 3-5, 2011 (with Professor Edward Schwerin)

“Climate Change, Affluence, and Vulnerability: A Cross-national Analysis of Global Public

Opinion and Its Correlates,” presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Seattle, September 1-4, 2011 (with Professor Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias)

“Scientists under Anarchy: Use of Scientific Expertise in Global Governance,” presented at the

International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada, March 16-19, 2011.

“Government R&D as a Redistribution Problem: A Panel Analysis of Government R&D vs.

Social Spending in 28 OECD Countries (1981-2009),” presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of

the Association for Public Policy and Management, Boston, November 4-6, 2010

“Investing in Science and Technology in Economic Hard Times: An Analysis of Government

Support for R&D of 24 OECD Nations in 1981-2010,” presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 2010

“Behind Consensus: An Anatomy of Global Public Opinion on Climate Change,” presented at

Dupont Summit 2009, Washington, D.C., December 4-5, 2009

“Public Concern, Knowledge, and Support for Climate Change Mitigation: Aggregate & Individual-level Analysis,” presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009 (with Professor Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias)

“Public Concern, Knowledge, and Support for Costly Policies & Actions for Climate Change,”

presented at the 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political

Psychology, Dublin, July 14-17, 2009 (with Professor Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias)

“Asian Public Opinion on Climate Change and Its Implications for Climate Change Policies,”

presented at the Environmental Policy: a Multinational Conference on Policy Analysis and

Teaching Methods, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Seoul, June 11-13,

2009


“Technological Kuznets Curve: Technology, Inequality and Government Policy,” presented at

the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-31,

2008

“Trends in Global Environmental Opinion,” presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the

International Society of Political Psychology, Paris, July 9-12, 2008 (with Professor Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias)

“Interests, Ideas, and Information: A Multilevel Analysis of the Nonresponse Problem in the

Globalization Surveys,” presented at the 102th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science

Association, Philadelphia, August 31, 2006

“Asian Values and the Problem of Development,” presented at the Symposium on Topics and

Themes in Asian Philosophy and Thought, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida

Atlantic University, March 31, 2006*

“Who “Don’t Know” whether Globalization is Good or Bad? An analysis of non-responses to

the globalization survey question,” presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 23-26, 2006

“Asian Americans: Religion, Political Partisanship, and American Presidential Voting,” presented at the Religion and the American Presidency Conference, Claremont McKenna College,

Claremont, California, April 5-7, 2005

“Globalization and Government Social Spending in Asia (1960-2002),” presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 31 – April 3, 2005

“Globalization and Economic Insecurity: Perceptions and Reality,” presented at the Annual

Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 3-6, 2003

“Two Worlds that Never Come Close: A Bifurcating Pattern of Globalization and Social

Spending in Developed vs. Developing Nations,” presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Portland, February 25 – March 1, 2003

“What If More Open Economies Are Not More Volatile? Implications for the Compensation

Argument,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

Boston, August 29 – September 1, 2002

“Economic Openness, Volatility, and Government Size,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the

Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Fort Worth, Texas, March 14-18, 2001

“A Signaling Model of Government Spending in a Financially Open World, presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,” Chicago, April 27-30, 2000

WORK IN PROGRESS (PAPERS)

“Honorable Failure and Information Asymmetry in R&D Evaluation” (with Prof. Buhm Soon

Park & Prof. Gouk Tae Kim)


“Funding Basic Science in Economic Downturns: the Luxury Good vs. Productive Capital

Perspective and the Evidence” (with Prof. Man Cho)

“Frontier Science and the Entrepreneurial State: A Closer Look into Science Bureaucracy” (with

Prof. Buhm Soon Park)

“Revisiting Mertonian Norms: A Survey Analysis of Korean Scientists” (with Yoonhoo Kim)

“Few Big vs. Many Small: the Institute for Basic Science and the Debate on Basic Science

Funding Schemes in Korea” (with Daein Park)

“Dilemmas in Research Funding Design for Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: The Case

of Korea’s National Core Research Center Program” (with You Jung Shin)

“A Bayesian Game Analysis of Insider Threats to Nuclear Security” (with Kyo-Nam Kim, Prof.

Man-Sung Yim, and Prof. Erich Schneider)

“Quantifying the Cultural Dimension of State-level Nuclear Security” (with Chan Kim and Prof

Man-Sung Yim)

WORK IN PROGRESS (BOOKS)

A Shadow from the Future: Rationales and Realities of Government Funding for Science and Technology

From Minority to Diversity: Korea ’s Decadal Effort to Advance Women in Science and Engineering ,

Book Manuscript (co-authored with Prof. Hyesook Lee (WISET Director) and Dr. Meeock Moon

(WISET Secretary)

PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS

“Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Basic Science Evaluation,” Special Session for Policy

and Communication, IBS Research Conference, Daejeon, November 28, 2013

“Recent Trends in Korean Policy for Women S&T Workforce”, Invited Lecture for the Gender-

Conscious Engineering Pedagogy Workshop, Gunsan University, Gunsan, November 21, 2013

“Change and Continuity in Policy for Women in Science & Engineering in Korea and Abroad,”

Invited Talk, BIEN 2013 (Bio, Information, Environment/Energy and Nano Technology),

International Conference of Women Scientists and Engineers, Seoul, August 22-23, 2013

“Women’s Career in Science & Technology,” Invited Lecture, Kangwon Center for Women in

Science, Engineering, and Technology (Kangwon-WISET), May 25, 2013

“Living, Learning, and Leading through Dilemmas,” Invited Lecture for <the Next Generation

Leaders in UST>, University of Science & Technology, November 30, 2012

“Working in International Organizations,” Invited Lecture, <Lecture Series on Career and Leadership for Women>, Yonsei University, August 13, 2012


“Global and National Regulatory Framework for IT Security,” KAIST ICC 2011 IT Convergence

International Workshop for Future Mobile Services and Software Technology, December 2, 2011

“Do We Need a Nobel Prize?” Invited Lecture, Songchon High School, Daejeon, November 18,

2011

“From a Divide to a Detour: Meanings and Practices of Convergence of Science and Technology with Humanities and Social Sciences,” Invited Lecture, 22nd International Youth Forum

sponsored by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, August 18, 2011

“Voluntary Exile in the Digital Age,” International Conference for the Integration of Science and

Technology into Society (ICISTS), August 2, 2011

“Nobel Laureates in Sciences,” Special Lecture on Women in Science and Engineering,

Shintanjin High School, Shintanjin, April 1, 2011

“National Policy for Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Science/Technology and

Humanities/Social Sciences,” KISTEP Science & Technology Policy Forum, September 16, 2010

“Duality of the Collective Identity of Scientists in Pluralist Democracy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Tokyo, August 25-29, 2010

“2010 Local Election – for Manifesto (Policy-Driven) Election,” Daejeon Broadcasting

Corporation (TJB), Aired on May 16, 2010

“Women in Science and Technology in the Age of Globalization,” Jeju University, February 4,

2010

“Nobel Prize Winners I Have Met,” LG English Science Camp for Science-Gifted Children,

January 13, 2010

“Sustainability and Science & Technology Policy,” Winter Camp for Science-Gifted Children,

Global Institute for Talented Education, KAIST, January 5, 2010

“Governing Technologies in a Globalizing World,” Science & Technology Policy Program Spring 2009 Colloquium, KAIST, February 23, 2009

“Korean Culture, History, and Language,” 2008 Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart

Structures Technology, KAIST, August 11-12, 2008

“Knowledge Intensity of Information Technology: Implications for the Digital Divide in the Age of Globalization,” World Universities Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 31 – February 2, 2008

“Sincerity and Intensity of Global Environmental Support,” Civil and Environmental

Engineering Department, KAIST, January 16, 2008

RESEARCH GRANTS

Principal Investigator, Design of A Multi-stakeholder System for Participatory Governance of Social

Conflicts in A Digital Age, Intramural project (KAIST), July – December 2013 (KRW 50,000,000)


Principal Investigator, Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Identifying Strategic Research Areas

in Basic Research, funded by the Korea National Research Foundation (NRF), February – August

2013 (KRW 70,000,000)

Principal Investigator, Valuing Challenges and Measuring Social Impacts of Public R&D Programs,

funded by the Korea Institute for Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP), February – June 2013 (KRW 50,000,000)

Researcher, System Development for Nuclear Transparency and Nuclear Security Evaluation funded

by Nuclear Safety Commission (350,000,000KRW for first year, 1,750,000,000KRW for five years),

2013-2018 (PI: Prof Man-Sung Yim, Department of Nuclear & Quantum Engineering)

Researcher, Recent Trends in Science of Science Policy and Their Implications for Planning Further

Development of K2Base System, funded by KISTEP, June – November 2013 (KRW 20,000,000)

Researcher, Daejeon as a Science Laboratory, funded by the Korea Foundation for Science and

Creativity (KOFAC) for May 2013 – February 24

Principal Investigator, Towards a Paradigm Shift to Qualitative Evaluation of Public R&D, funded

by KISTEP, October – November 2012 (KRW 20,000,000)

Researcher, Grant for the Training Program for Science & Technology Policy Professionals, Multi-year

project funded by the Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies, November 2011 –

February 2014 ($100,000 for the first year and $250,000 for the following three years)

Principal Investigator, White Paper Project on Korean Women Scientists and Engineers, funded by

the Center for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (WISET) & the Ministry of

Science, Technology, and Education, May – August 2011 ($10,000)

Researcher, A Policy Proposal to Enhance the Effectiveness of Technology Assessment in “New Risk

Society,” funded by KISTEP, May – November 2011 ($30,000)

Researcher, Project Planning for the Establishment of the National Security System Institute, KAIST

Information Communication College, June 2011 – May 2012 ($120,000)

Principal Investigator, Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) Project, supported by the

Korea Research Foundation & the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Education, October 2008

– February 2009 ($30,000)

Statistical Data Analyst, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Fall 2007

($4,000) & Spring 2009 ($5,000)

Morrow Fund for Faculty Research, Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University,

May 2006 ($3,000)

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Development Grant, Florida Atlantic University, 2005

($2,500).


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

Program committee member & session chair, Atlanta Conference for Science and Innovation,

Atlanta, September 26-28, 2013

Organizer & discussant, International R&D Evaluation Forum, Seoul, KISTEP and KAIST, June 8,

2013

Chair for the panel on Accelerating Innovation, Annual Conference of the Association for Public

Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Baltimore, November 8-10, 2012

Chair for the panel on Rethinking Expertise and Democracy, International Conference on Linking STS and Social Sciences. Center for Social Sciences of Seoul National University, October 28-29,

2011

Discussant for the panel on Comparative Politics of Science & Technology, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, September 1-5, 2011

Discussant for the panel on the Global Governance of Transnational Knowledge: Experiences from Research and Higher Education, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA),

Montreal, March 16-19, 2011

Discussant for the panel on Political Behavior, Biology, and Genetics, Annual Meeting of the

International Society of Political Psychology, San Francisco, July 7-10, 2010

Discussant for the panel on Adapting to or Avoiding Doomsday: Dealing with Climate Change,

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Sept 3-6, 2009

Session chair for the International Workshop on EEWS 2008 – Energy, Environment, Water, and

Sustainability: Challenge as Opportunity, September 9, 2008

Chair and discussant for the panel on Economics and Interstate Conflict, Annual Meeting of the

Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, January 5-7, 2007

Chair and discussant for the panel on New Insights on Globalization, Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2006

Chair and discussant for the panel on Globalization and Problems of Development, Annual

Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 23-26, 2006

Discussant for the panel on Political Sources of Financial Market Development, Annual Meeting of

the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 15-18, 2004

Reviewer for SCI/SSCI Journals – International Organization (2007), International Studies Quarterly

(2000), Journal of East Asian Studies (2007, 2013), Review of International Political Economy (2009), Climate Change (2011), Comparative Political Studies (2013)

Reviewer for other Journals – Journal of Area and International Studies (2007), Korean Political

Science Review (2008, 2009, 2010), Education & Culture Research (2011)


Member of American Political Science Association (STEP and Public Policy Sections),

International Studies Association, Association for Asian Studies, Korean Political Science

Association, Association of Korean Political Studies

TEACHING _____________________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES

KAIST Graduate School of Science & Technology (since 2009)

Survey in Science, Technology, and Public Policy (mandatory graduate course)

Science & Technology Policy (mandatory undergraduate course)

Quantitative Public Policy Analysis (mandatory graduate course till 2011)

Public Policymaking Political Economy of Science & Technology

Science of Science Policy

Power vs. Choice (mandatory course for undergraduate minor students)

Governing Global Risks

Technology, Democracy, and Market (team-taught course under development)

KAIST School of Humanities & Social Sciences (2007-2009)

Politics and Economics of Climate Change, Sustainability: Agenda & Prospects, Globalization

and World Politics, Introduction to World Affairs, Introduction to Political Science

KAIST at Large (since 2007) Science & Technology Policy (Graduate School of Science Journalism) Freshmen Design Course (required course for all undergraduates) – Project Advisor for Bridging

the Digital Divide (2008), Promoting Women in Science & Technology (2009), Innovating the

Governance of the Metropolitan City of Daejeon (2010)

Georgia Institute of Technology (spring 2012) Governing Global Risks

Northwestern University (summer sessions 2009 & 2010)

Environment, Science, and Society

Florida Atlantic University (2004-2006)

Graduate Seminar in Research Methods, International Political Economy, International System Globalization, Comparative Politics

Northwestern University (1999-2002)

Politics and Markets, Politics of the Global Economy, Introduction to Comparative Politics


ADVISING

Thesis/Dissertation Committee (STP)

Advisor for Doctoral Dissertation (Current): Joosang Park (Reassessment of Korean ICT Policy), Seorim Lee (Korean Space Policy), Inkyoung Sun (Energy and Innovation Policy)

Advisor for Master Thesis (Current): Daein Park (Basic Science Funding), Kyungmin Lee

(Patents and R&D System)

Advisor for Master Thesis (Graduated): o Displaying ‘Nation’ in Science Museums: Representing National Pride in Korean

National Science Museums, Yoonhoo Kim, February 2014 [Co-Advisor: Prof. Mina

Park] o Looking into SaTReC to Track Korean Space Development: Being the Only One to One

of Them, Seungmi Chung, February 2012 o Meshing Science and Politics in Global Governance of Climate Change: IPCC as an

International Scientific Advisory Institution, Seah Kim, August 2011

o A Comparative Analysis of the Perceptions of Environmental Management of Public vs.

Private Enterprises, Byung Chul Lee, Graduate Program of Science Journalism,

February 2013 o A Practical Application for KAIST Science Journalism Program: An Economist’s

Cinema, Byungryul Park, Graduate Program of Science Journalism

Reader for Master Theses: o A Case Study of Higher Education Policy in Korea: World Class University Project,

Sung Jun Kim, Graduate Program of Science Journalism, February 2013 o A Study of the Concept of Sustainable Development in Korea, Nak Il Ko, Graduate

Program of Science Journalism, February 2013 o A Study of Changes in Nuclear-related News in Different Presidencies, Joseph Kim,

Graduate Program of Science Journalism, February 2012 o A Comparative Analysis of the Korean and American Media Frame on Climate Change,

Myung Hun Jee, Graduate Program of Science Journalism, February 2012

o A Framework to Enhance Online News Credibility: Infidelity Index through Reporter

Monitoring, Young Joo Sohn, Graduate School of Culture Technology, Spring

2008

Master’s Thesis Committee (Science Journalism & Intellectual Property)

Reviewed 24 master’s theses, Spring 2013 Reviewed 21 master’s theses, Fall 2013

Student Research Projects

Independent Research Project:


Health R&D Spending and Outcomes in Korea, Fall 2012

Visioning in Renewable Energy Policy, Fall 2012

Politics of Renewable Energy Investment, Summer 2011

High School Research Program, A Study of Korean Scientist Society and Culture. Korea Science

Academy, April-November 2011

Undergraduate Research Participation Program:

A Study of the Daedeok Science Town as a Community of Science Culture, Spring 2011

A Study of KAIST’s New Admission Policy: A Tentative Assessment of Its Effectiveness, Fall

2010 Knowledge Intensity of Technologies and Global Inequality (won the Third Place in the final

evaluation), Spring 2008 Do Asian Values Really Exist? An Empirical Assessment of the Asian Values Argument,

Spring 2008

Freshmen Seminar: Fall 2009 (for international students only), Spring 2008 & Spring 2009

LG Challenger Project for Korea ’s Overseas Development Assistance (won the contest that selected

12 out of about 100 proposals), Spring 2007

Internships

Placed STP minor students:

STEPI (summer 2013, summer 2012, summer 2011)

KISTEP (summer 2011)

KRISS (summer 2012, summer 2011)

KRIBB (summer 2013)

Korea Science Museum (winter 2013) Institute for Basic Science (winter 2012)

Placed two undergraduate students at STEPI, 2009

SERVICE _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Final Evaluator of the White Paper on Women in Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute

of Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET), October 2013

Evaluation Committee Member, International Conference for Youth, Korea Educational

Development Institute (KEDI), April 2013

External Reviewer for Faculty Recruitment, Hanshin University, January 2013


Co-Chair, Committee for Science & Society, Korea Federation of Women’s Science &

Technology Association (KOFWST), 2012

Evaluation Committee Member, 2012 International Conference for Youth, Ministry of Education,

Science, and Technology & the Korea Education Development Institute, April 2012

Annual Evaluation Committee, World Class University Project (Humanities & Social Sciences Division), Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, October 2011

Field Consultant, Women in Science and Engineering Program (Kangwon-Wonju Center), July

2011

Staff Officer, External Relations, Korean Political Science Association, 2011

Program Assessment Committee Member, Women in Engineering (WIE) Program, Korea

Research Foundation, December 2010

KAIST Faculty Fellow, Women in Science & Engineering (WISE), 2010

Program Assessment Committee Member, Women in Science & Technology (WIST) Program,

Korea Research Foundation, April 2010

Secretary, Choongchung Political Science Association, 2010

Advisory Committee for the Five-Year (2011-15) Plan for Human Resources in Science &

Technology, Korea of Science & Technology Evaluation & Planning (KISTEP), November 2009 –

March 2010

National Science & Technology Vision Committee, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP) & Ministry of Education, S cience, and Technology, April-

October 2009

Program Committee Member, Second International Workshop on Energy, Environment, Water,

and Sustainability, Daejeon, Korea, September 2009

Evaluation Committee Member, World Class University Project, Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, April 2009

Planning Committee Member, 12th Plenary Meeting of the Limited Nuclear Free Zone for

Northeast Asia (Chaired by Dr. John Endicott, Woosong University President), June-October

2008

Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Energy, Environment, Water,

and Sustainability, Daejeon, Korea, September 2008

On-Campus (KAIST)

STP Faculty Search Committee Chair, 2011 & 2012

HAPPY-KAIST Planning Committee, 2013

Secretary for the Research Division, Vision 2025 Committee, October 2010 – May 2011

University Admissions Committee, September 2007 – Current


Public Relations Committee, 2008

Curriculum Reorganization Committee, Development Committee, Faculty Search Committee,

School of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2007 – 2008

On-Campus (Florida Atlantic University)

Webmaster of the Department Website & Graduate Program Committee, Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, 2004 – 2006

Asian Studies Committee, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic

University, 2004 – 2006

OTHER _____________________________________________________________________________________________

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

STEPI Fellowship, Science & Technology Policy Institute, January 2013

Excellence in University Service Award, KAIST, February 2010

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2004-2005 [Declined]

Finalist in the Competition for the Korean American Scholarship, Korean American Scholarship

Foundation, 2003

Travel Grant for Advanced International Graduate Students, American Political Science

Association, 2002

MacArthur Research Grant for Graduate Students, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 2002

Nominated for the Outstanding Support Staff Award [as Data Assistant of the Social Sciences

Data Services], Northwestern University, 2002

Seoul National University Alumni Association Scholarship, SNUAA-Chicago, 2001

Chung-Ahm Scholarship, Chung-Ahm Scholarship Foundation, 2000

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science & Program in Mathematical

Methods in Social Sciences, Northwestern University, 1997-2002

Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board,

1996-1999

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant for Professor Dennis Chong, Department of Political Science, Northwestern

University, 2000-2002


Data Assistant, Social Sciences Data Services, Supervisor: Ann Janda, Northwestern University,

1999-2001

Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science and Program in the Mathematical Methods

in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, 1998-1999

Program Assistant for the Quality of Life in Korea Project, Principal Investigator: Professor

Chung-Si Ahn, Social Science Institute, Seoul National University, 1995

REFERENCES _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias ([email protected]), University of South California

Kenneth Janda ([email protected]), Northwestern University

Ben Ross Schneider ([email protected]), MIT

David Guston ([email protected]), Arizona State University

Dan Breznitz ([email protected]), Georgia Institute of Technology

Mark Zak Taylor ([email protected]), Georgia Institute of Technology

Su-ik Hwang ([email protected]), Seoul National University

Chung-Si Ahn ([email protected]), Seoul National University

Chanwook Park ([email protected]), Seoul National University

Hyesook Lee ([email protected]), Korean Advanced Institute for Women in Science,

Engineering, and Technology

PERSONAL INFORMATION _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Family: married, one daughter (17) and two sons (15, 14)

Hobbies: distance running, swimming, jigsaw-puzzle, piano, installation art, biography reading

Languages: Korean (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (reading – fair)











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