Sun Ki earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kentucky in 2016. Before joining graduate school in the University of Kentucky, he earned master’s degree in Economics from the New York University and the Syracuse University. His Primary research interests are Labor, Public, and Educational Economics. Specifically, he researches wage and fringe benefit differential between public and private sector employees, trend of wage differential, and the determinants of total benefit differential. He teaches quantitative methods in economics.