n e w fa c u lt y Drawn from the highest levels of academia, business, and government, the faculty at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business represents a diversity of intellectual perspectives and a depth of professional experience. Each year the school welcomes new scholars who bring their leadership and expertise to the classroom. Georgetown McDonough faculty members regularly contribute to scholarly and trade publications, participate in ongoing debates and conferences, publish pioneering books and papers, and serve as consultants to businesses, governments, and non-governmental agencies throughout the world. By making themselves available to students for independent consultations, recruiting student assistants for research projects, and advising student organizations, they enhance the entrepreneurial spirit of the school and introduce students to opportunities within their industries of experience.
So Yeon Chun Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management
So Yeon Chun’s research based on stochastic optimization and applied statistics focuses on revenue management (demand forecasting and dynamic pricing) and risk management with applications to the transportation, retail, and hospitality industries.
Before coming to Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Chun served as an instructor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was honored by the Thank a Teacher program for her course in statistical methods.
In addition to teaching classes in the Undergraduate
She holds several patents for demand analysis and decision
Program, MBA Programs, and Executive Degree, Custom,
support systems and has published articles in Operations
and Certificate Programs, these professors conduct research
Research, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications,
that impacts the way the world does business. They
and Multivariate Behavioral Research.
epitomize the global at home approach that distinguishes
Originally from Korea, Chun holds a Ph.D. in industrial
the school, expanding traditional classroom learning
engineering and an M.S. in applied statistics from the
with the latest thinking across each field of study.
Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Seoul National University.
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