Professor

Prof. Byoung Ki Seo

Dr. Seo had worked on the financial derivatives market as a quant and trader before being appointed as a professor of business administration at UNIST in 2012. The research is focused on giving solutions to the financial market based on his experiences. He published papers on financial market volatility and liquidity. He is also in the process of developing a model to stabilize the financial market.

Recently, he was interested in energy trading and founded the “Energy Commodity Trading and Financial Engineering” program and “Center for International Energy Trading”. He is also interested in blockchain technology and has established “UNIST Blockchain Research Center” and serves as the director. Financial market analysis and forecasting using AI techniques are some of his important research topics as well.

Employment

• 2012 ~ Present
  Associate Professor/Assistant Professor
  Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

• 2006 ~ 2012
  Quant/Trader
  Industrial Bank of Korea

• 2005 ~ 2006
  Researcher
  Utrecht University

• 2004 ~ 2005
  Researcher
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics (2004)
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• M.S. in Mathematics (1999)
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• B.S. in Mathematics (1997)
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology