Education

• Ph.D., Communication / Media Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2009)
• M.A., Media Ecology, New York University (1998)
• B.A, Psychology / Communication, University of Hawaii at Manoa (1995)

Teaching & Research Fields

• Lecturer / Teaching Faculty for Rugers, the State University of new Jersey & Rider University (2006-2009)
• Researcher / Certified Coder of Facial Action coding System (FACS) for U.S. Department of Defense project (2005)
• Research Assistant for the Center for Mobile Communication, Rutgers, the State university of new Jersey (2004-2005)
  
• Mobile Communication industry Jr. Analyst for J. P. Consulting Group (2002-2005)
• Discerning Ethics in a Media-Created Capitalistic World : In-depth interviews on Media and Regional Status with North Korean Escapees (2014)
• Understanding Digital Divide in Korean Peninsula : A survey on the Perception of the Regional Crisis Status and media Uses (2013)
• Beyond Digitally South-North korea : Investigating Media System Dependency(MSD) of the Digital north and South (2013)
• Disregarding South-North Cultural Differences : A Content Analysis of Cultural imperative for Teenagers from Mobile Industry (2012)
• Digital Divide and Divide in the Technological “Realities” from Media : A Content Analysis of Mobile phone Quotient in the U.S. State newspapers(2011)
• Are the youth of Today Ever Becoming More “Social?” : Exploring the Relationship between Social Media Use and Prosocial Effect (2010)
• New Media Uses and Dependency Effect Model : Exploring the Relationship between New Media Use Habit, Dependency Relation, and Possible Outcomes(2009)
• Developing a predictive measurement of media effect (2007)