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Research Interests

• Extremal Combinatorics, Extremal set theory, Graph Theory, Algebraic and Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics.
  In particular, I am interested in Turan-type Problems for Hypergraphs.
  

I received my Ph.D. in December 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of Zoltan Furedi .

My Erdös number is 2.

Grant

• Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF 한국연구재단).
  (June 2013 - May 2016) (150,000,000 (won) for 3 years)

 

Awards

• 2014 WISET-KMS 젊은 여성 우수연구자상 (from 대한수학회와 WISET), October 2014.

 

Education

• December 2011, Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
  - Thesis advisor : Zoltan Furedi

 

Employment

• December 2015 - present, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, Research Professor.
• September 2015 - November 2015, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, Postdoctoral Researcher.
• September 2012 - August 2015, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST, South Korea, Postdoctoral Researcher.
• January 2012 - May 2012, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) , USA, Researcher (Supported by MSRI).