Seungwoo Kang

I am a postdoctoral researcher of statistics at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea.
My research interest lies in non-Euclidean, high-dimensional data analysis, and statistics in the social sciences.
Contact me via E-mail.

Academic Appointments

Education

BSc
  • Bachelor of Science — Feb. 2020
    Major: Statistics, Minor: Computer Science and Engineering
    Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Graduation Honor: Summa Cum Laude
PhD

Publications Google Scholar Logo (†: Equal contribution, *: Corresponding author)

2024
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. Forecasting South Korea's Presidential Election via Multiparty Dynamic Bayesian Modeling. International Journal of Forecasting 40(1), 124–141. [www | R code]
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. Novel Sampling Method for the von Mises–Fisher Distribution. Statistics and Computing 34(3), 106. [www | R package | R code]
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. Probabilistic Principal Curves on Riemannian Manifolds. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 46(7), 4843–4849. [www | R code]
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. Spherical Random Projection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 86(5), 1364–1382. [www | R code]
2025
  • Seungwoo Kang†, Kyusoon Kim†, Youngwook Kwon†, Seeun Park†, Seoncheol Park†, Ha-Young Shin†, Joonpyo Kim, and Hee-Seok Oh. Semiparametric Approaches for the Inference of Univariate and Multivariate Extremes. Extremes 28(1), 123–148. [www | R code]
2026
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. On a Notion of Graph Centrality Based on L1 Data Depth. Journal of the American Statistical Association. Accepted for Publication. [www | arXiv | R package | R code]
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. L1 Prominence Measures for Directed Graphs. The American Statistician. Accepted for Publication. [www | arXiv | R package | R code]
  • Seungwoo Kang and Hee-Seok Oh. L1 Prominence-Based Network Analysis Using R. submitted. [R package]
  • Kyusoon Kim, Seeun Park, Ha-Young Shin, Jisoo Choi, Jihoon Ha, Joonpyo Kim, Youngwook Kwon, Seoncheol Park, and Seungwoo Kang*. Extremal PCA-Based Synthetic Event Generation for the Inference of Extreme Precipitation. submitted. [R code]

Conference Talks

2021
2022
2023
  • Novel Sampling Method for the von Mises–Fisher Distribution. KSS Summer Conference (Busan, Korea)
  • Spherical Random Projection. The 64th World Statistics Congress (Ottawa, Canada)
2024
2025

Grants

Honors

2022
  • Scholarship for Next Generation Scholars, SNU
  • Outstanding Young Researcher/Student Award (2nd prize), IASC-ARS
  • Kim Woochul Teaching Award, Department of Statistics, SNU
  • Best Oral Presentation Award (1st prize), KSS
2023
  • Best Oral Presentation Award (4th prize), KSS
2024
  • IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, IMS
2025
  • SPARC Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, College of Natural Sciences, SNU
  • Gallup Korea Award, KASR
  • Gallup Korea Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, KSS
  • S-OIL Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, KAST

Software GitHub Logo

Associations

Referee Service

Teaching (Full list ➜)

2026S
  • Modern Statistical Methods (STA5021)

Skills

Miscellaneous

I served as a vice editor-in-chief (Dec. 2017–May 2018), an editor of the photo & design desk (Jun. 2017–Nov. 2017), and a photo reporter (Mar. 2016–May 2017) for the Daehakshinmoon, the weekly newspaper of SNU. On March 2018, I won the 9th SISAIN University Press Award in the photography & graphics sector. Selected works: 2016.10.17, 2016.11.14, 2017.03.06, 2017.05.15

References

Available upon request