Seokkyun Woo
- Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy
- wsk618@kaist.ac.kr
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- Science of Science
- Organization of Science and Innovation
- Computational Social Science
Profile
- Seokkyun Woo is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy (STP) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
- Prior to joining KAIST, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and an M.S. in Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research examines how the work organizations of science and innovation are structured and how they, in turn, influence the rate and direction of research activities with the goal of providing effective science and technology policy. His research attempts to integrate perspectives from various disciplines, including the sociology of work, the sociology of science, and public policy.
- In addition, he is interested in the cultural evolution of science and inventions by leveraging large-scale digitized historical archives and advanced computational methods.