Elaine Pak - Doctoral Student at The Wharton School

Elaine Pak

Doctoral Student at The Wharton School

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Elaine Pak is a PhD candidate at Wharton whose research bridges corporate governance, labor markets, and emerging technologies to understand how firms and employees interact in a changing economy. With a decade of analytic and consulting experience at firms like Booz Allen and research roles at Seoul National University, she blends rigorous empirical methods with practical implementation—having built an AI-driven math problem recommender and taught Python in high schools. Before academia she was a filmmaker and produced award-winning short films featured at international festivals and on BuzzFeed, bringing a creative storytelling lens to data science and policy questions. An SKT AI fellow and competition winner, she co-authored a Korean best-seller on AI’s impact on jobs, demonstrating an uncommon mix of public communication, technical depth, and applied research. Based in Philadelphia, she pairs scholarly curiosity with hands-on product experience to shape research that informs real-world decisions.

9 years of coding experience

Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University

B.A. (Graduated with Distinction), Public Policy Studies, B.A. (Graduated with Distinction), Public Policy Studies at Duke University

High School Diploma, English & Chinese Specialization, High School Diploma, English & Chinese Specialization at Daewon Foreign Language High School

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Management at The Wharton School

English, Korean, Chinese

Github Skills (13)

hamilton4

summarization4

corpus3

large-scale2

datasets2

similarity2

machine-learning2

scale2

python2

snap1

word-embeddings1

sentence-similarity1

data-analysis1

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (5)

elainespak/glassdoor_aspect_based_sentiment_analysis

Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

Contributions:125 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months

May 2020 - Sep 2020

Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months

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