Hello!

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. I will be joining the Management Department in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor in Summer 2026.

My research explores how current workplace contexts—social, physical, and now digital—shape employee proactivity.

To this end, I employ longitudinal field surveys, experience-sampling studies, laboratory and online experiments, and qualitative interviews, to pursue one overarching question: When and how do changing work contexts facilitate or inhibit proactive behaviors?

I earned my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland; MS in Organizational Behavior from Seoul National University; MS in Journalism from Columbia University; and BS in Business Administration from Seoul National University.

Prior to joining the academia, I worked in the finance industry, and as a journalist at Bloomberg, covering corporate governance issues at major chaebols (i.e., South Korea's family-run conglomerates), and Korea's auto industry.