Using data to craft worlds audiences can see, play, and live.

BIO

I’m a Forbes-listed expert in entertainment media and data science, currently Director of Data Science at Sony Pictures Entertainment. My work has been featured by the Digital Entertainment Group and published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Media Business Studies, International Journal on Media Management, and International Journal of Communication. In addition, I’m a contributor to Towards Data Science and have served as an invited reviewer for communication and media management journals and conferences around the world.

I was born in Seoul, Korea; learned English in Tuscaloosa, AL; and grew up in northern Virginia. Considering home to be where the heart is, I call Los Angeles, CA home. In my free time, I like to go to concerts, write, sing at karaoke bars, watch movies, travel, and take long walks on the beach.

PhD, Communication – University of Pennsylvania
MA, Statistics – The Wharton School
MBA – Boston University
BA, Interactive Entertainment – University of Southern California

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Favorite movies: Before Sunset, La La Land, (500) Days of Summer, Back to the Future, Midnight in Paris, Serendipity, Forrest Gump, Interstellar, Cinema Paradiso, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Substance
Favorite musicians: Queen, Fun/Nate Ruess, Coldplay, OneRepublic, Train, Sara Bareilles, Michael Giacchino, John Williams, Kygo, The Killers, Avicii
Favorite books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kitchen Confidential, The Alchemist, Brave New World, Cloud Atlas, Under a War Torn Sky, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Normal People, A Cook’s Tour 
Favorite TV shows: Queen’s Gambit, Better Call Saul, Battlestar Galactica, Black Mirror, How I Met Your Mother, Stargate SG-1, House, Psych, Succession, The Bear
Favorite video games: Control, Quantum Break, Alan Wake, The Walking Dead, Yakuza, Mass Effect, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Tomb Raider (2013)
Countries traveled: United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, France, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Monaco, Austria, Germany, Italy, Vatican City, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Cuba, Mexico, Turkey