Sungkyu Jung

• Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Building 25 Room 436, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea
• sungkyu[at]snu.ac.kr
• +82-2-880-6578
• https://jung.snu.ac.kr/
• Last Updated: July 09, 2026

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2006–2011

• B.S. in Statistics, Seoul National University. 1999–2003

Academic appointments

• Department of Statistics, Seoul National University
  • Professor, 2022–
  • Associate Professor, 2018–2022.
• Institute for Data Innovation in Science, Seoul National University
  • Director, 2024–
• Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • Associate Professor (tenured), 2017-2018.
  • Assistant Professor, 2011–2017.

Research Interest

• Modern Multivariate Statistics
• High-dimension, low-sample-size (HDLSS) analysis
• Statistics for unconventional, non-Euclidean, manifold-valued and/or multi-sourced data
• Data privacy

Honors

• Korea Statistician of the Year Award, Statistics Korea, Aug. 2025.

• Education Award, College of Natural Science, SNU, Mar. 2025.

• Research Award, College of Natural Science, SNU, Sep. 2021.

• Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Natural Science, SNU, Sep. 2019.

• Early Career Development Award, Korean International Statistical Society, 2016.

• US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow, MFO, Germany, 2014.

• Distinguished Paper Award, International Biometric Society/ENAR, 2011.

• Wassily Hoeffding Award, Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, 2007

Research Grants

• co-PI, HK-dir UTFORSK on SCoDa, Norway (UTF-2024/10203), 2025-2028.

• PI, NRF Mid-Career Researcher Program (RS-2024-00333399), 2024-2029.

• co-PI, NRF LAMP project (RS-2023-00301976), 2023-2028.

• co-PI, NRF Basic Research Lab grant (RS-2023-00218231), 2023-2026.

• co-PI, IITP R&D grant (2022-0-00937), 2022-2024.

• PI, Samsung Science & Technology Foundation (SSTF-BA2002-03), 2020-2025.

• PI, NRF Mid-Career Researcher Program (2019R1A2C2002256), 2019-2024.

• PI, Internal grant, Seoul National University, 2018-2020.

• PI, dB-SERC, University of Pittsburgh, 2017-2018.

• PI, Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh, 2016-2018.

• PI, NSF DMS-1307178, 2013-2016.

• PI, Hewlett International Grants, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh, 2012, 2013, 2016.

• Co-I, NIH (NCI) 5R01CA159471-03, 2011-2014.

Industry Collaboration

• Co-I, Synthetic Data Generation and Educational Program Development for BioBigData Korea, Korea Health Information Service, 2026

• PI, Advanced Research on xAI for Personal Credit Evaluation, Korea Credit Bureau and KB Kookmin Card, 2026.

• PI, Development of Anonymity Evaluation Criteria for Synthetic Data, Financial Security Institute, 2023.

• PI, Curriculum Development for Professional Data Analysis Training, Begas Co., Ltd., 2023-2024.

International Conference Organization

• Organizer, SNU–NCI Workshop on Statistical Innovation in Biomedical Research (Seoul, South Korea)

• Organizer, 2026 SCoDA workshop on Statistics for Complex Data and Data School (Seoul, South Korea)

• Program Committee, 2026 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS 2026) (Split, Croatia)

• Scientific Program Committee, The 4th Joint Conference on Statistics and Data Science (JCSDS 2026) (Guiyang, Guizhou, China)

Selected Service

• Member of the Steering Committee, AI Institute, SNU, 2025–2027.

• Member of the 2025 Future Forum on Personal Information, Personal Information Protection Commission of Korea, 2025.

• Director of Academic Affairs, Korean Statistical Society, 2025–2026.

• Associate Chair, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, 2024–2026.

• Deputy Director, SNU Center for LAMP Project, 2023–2028.

• Associate Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2019–2026

• Associate Editor, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2017–

• Associate Editor, Journal of Korean Statistical Society, 2014-

• Graduate Director, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2017–2018.