She joined ShanghaiTech University in September 2016 after receiving her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley in May 2016. During her study in UC Berkeley, she won the 2015 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies (KFAS) Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, the Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellowship and the Crawford Research Fellowship. Before Berkeley, She received a BA in Economics and a MA in Strategy and International Management from Seoul National University.