Summary
Jisung Yoon is an Assistant Professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management and a former postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, bringing eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, complex systems, and public policy. He holds a PhD in Complex Systems and Industrial & Management Engineering from POSTECH and applies computational social science methods to study the science of science, bureaucracy, and coordination mechanisms across regulatory systems. His work leverages large-scale digital traces and ML to reveal how institutional processes and regulatory functions emerge and adapt. With early industry experience as a backend developer and software engineer, he pairs rigorous academic research with practical engineering sensibilities. Based in Sejong, South Korea, he blends theoretical modeling with data-driven policy insights to make AI tools actionable for governance challenges.
8 years of coding experience