Her research areas are social network analysis, reputation management, bayesian game theory and multi-agent systems. Her research specifically focuses on distributed reputation computation and estimating degrees of nodes in online social network. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science at Syracuse University in 2014. She was a visiting scientist at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Jooyoung visited Polytechnic University of Milan (November 2014- January 2015) working with Dr. Salvatore Distefano on incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing.