I'm a mixed-methods researcher and policy analyst with area expertise in Korean Peninsula, and domain expertise in foreign policy, diplomacy, and intercultural communication. I’ve shared my insights in academic, public, and nonprofit settings. I led 38 research projects through surveys with 6000+ participants, in-depth interviews with 35 participants, experiments, data extraction, text analysis, and discourse analysis. These efforts yielded 3 edited volumes, 25 journal articles, and 14 book chapters. In managerial and research roles, I secured $1.7M+ grants that enabled bringing in 4 global scholars, 2 post-docs, 10 scholarships, organizing 6 international conferences, 17 international youth forums, 4 data science workshops, 3 international internships, and 2 new grad courses. I had the privilege of serving as a member of the Korean Presidential Committee of National Cohesion (2022 Apr-Jun), and as a member of a presidential special committee on immigration (2023 Jan-Jun). I am currently working on two R packages that will reduce retrieval of American and Korean diplomatic data from 200+ hours to 1 minute, enabling researchers and policymakers to evaluate foreign policy outcomes with ease.