About me

I am a behavioral and experimental economist. My research interest lies in understanding human nature through the lens of behavioral models of rational agents. I try to uncover the structure of underlying preferences that are hidden behind the constraints of information, social norms, or network structures, through both theoretical and experimental means. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. I am an Assitant Professor in the Department of Economics at Fairfield University. I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University prior to joining Fairfield.

I come from a multicultural background as a descendant of a Chinese immigrant family in South Korea. Born and raised in a rural town in Korea, my yellow brick road began when I first entered the United States as an exchange student in a high school in rural Kansas. The strange experience when I first recognized myself as an outsider of a community - and the realization that I had always been one - led me to the path of a nomad, later in Los Angeles, Beijing, Seoul, and St. Louis, the town I hold very dear.

I love discoveries - a new language, different culture, something that resembles my father’s old recipe, and what my dog means when he scratches my closet door, to name a few.