Yongjae Kim
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Data Innovation in Science, Seoul National University. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from Seoul National University in 2026, advised by Prof. Sungkyu Jung.
My research focuses on statistical inference, especially nonparametric methods for measuring dependence, association, and conditional association in mixed-type and high-dimensional data. I am interested in characterizing complex relationships without relying on restrictive parametric models, with connections to distribution-free inference, feature screening, variable selection, and modern biomedical data analysis.
Another line of my research concerns privacy and disclosure risk in synthetic data. I develop general frameworks for assessing attribution disclosure risk, aiming to quantify how much sensitive information may be revealed by synthetic data while accounting for both data utility and privacy protection.
cherrycooky [at] snu.ac.kr
Institute for Data Innovation in Science
Seoul National University
News
- Sept 2026. Upcoming Starting in March 2027, I will spend one year at the University of Washington, collaborating with Professor Fang Han.
- July 2026. Paper An association measure for mixed-type variables is now available on arXiv.
- July 2026. Talk I presented An Association Measure for Mixed-Type Variables at the 4th Joint Conference on Statistics and Data Science, Guiyang, China.
- June 2026. Talk I presented A Nearest-Neighbor Measure of Conditional Association for Mixed-Type Variables at the IMS New Researchers Conference Asia 2026, Hong Kong.
- June 2026. Talk I presented An association measure for mixed-type variables at the IMS APRM 2026, Hong Kong.
- June 2026. Paper A unified framework for measuring attribute disclosure risks in synthetic data was submitted.
- Mar 2026. Talk I presented An association measure for mixed-type variables at The 26th Nonparametric Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Statistics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Feb 2026. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from Seoul National University under the supervision of Professor Sungkyu Jung. My dissertation was titled Extensions of Mixed-type Association Measures.
- Feb 2026. Paper An association measure for mixed-type variables was submitted.
- Feb 2026. Fellowship I was selected for the Sejong Science Fellowship as the PI.