Kihyun Han
khnhan@psu.edu
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
423 Thomas Building
University Park, PA 16802
Kihyun Han is a Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Dr. Yanyuan Ma. He received his B.S. in Mathematical Sciences and Statistics (double major) from Seoul National University in 2022.
His research is primarily methodological, developing semiparametric and nonparametric methods for inference when a covariate is right-censored, as well as predictive inference and robustness under distribution shift. He is also interested in applications to biomedical studies and to the social sciences, including political science and economics. His current applied work centers on Huntington disease studies, in ongoing collaboration with Dr. Tanya P. Garcia.
Research Interests
- Semiparametric modeling
- Nonparametric modeling
- Survival analysis
- Predictive inference
- Distribution shift
Education
- Ph.D. Statistics, Pennsylvania State University (expected 2027)
- B.S. Mathematical Sciences and Statistics (double major), Seoul National University, 2022
Honors
- Mu Sigma Rho, National Statistics Honorary Society, 2025
- Harkness Statistics Enhancement Fund Award, Penn State Statistics (best first-year Ph.D. student), 2023
- Gold Prize, University Students Contest of Mathematics, Korean Mathematical Society, 2018
- Presidential Science Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2016–2022