Stanford & Berkeley Korean Proefessors

posted: 17-Jun-2026 & updated: 18-Jun-2026

Korean Professors @ Stanford University

The most prominent Korean professor at Stanford!
Professor of Sociology / Founding Director of the Korean Studies Program / Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies / Professor, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages & Cultures
gwshin@stanford.edu
Specialty: historical-comparative and political sociologist whose research concentrates on social movements, nationalism, development, democracy, migration, and international relations
Served as director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) from 2005 to 2025 —
신기욱 美스탠퍼드대 아·태 연구소장, 20년 만에 퇴임

Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education
phkim@stanford.edu
Specialty - design of learning technologies, educational research, and community development

Professor, Developmental Biology, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
seungkim@stanford.edu
Specialty: pancreatic islet development and biology, diabetes

Associate Professor @ Neurology and Neurological Sciences / Bioengineering / Neurosurgery
ljinhy@stanford.edu
Specialty: optogenetic fMRI and computational modeling of brain circuits, drawing on medical imaging, signal processing, genetics, and molecular biology

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
hyunpark@stanford.edu
Specialty - Korean literature and culture from the 17th–19th century, working in both Korean and literary Sinitic (hanmun 漢文)

W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering, Radiology (Diagnostic Sciences Laboratory) and of Bioengineering
tsoh@stanford.edu
Specialty: analytical biotechnology — high-throughput screening, directed evolution, and integrated biosensors.

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) / affiliated with Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) / Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
sewonm@berkeley.edu
Specialty: natural language processing and machine learning, with a focus on large language models — how they learn from and use very large text corpora
Joined Berkeley EECS in July 2025; SNU CS undergrad (ranked 1st in department), PhD at the University of Washington

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics (also Adjunct Professor, KIAS)
sjoh@math.berkeley.edu
Specialty: geometric PDEs originating from physics — Yang-Mills equations, Einstein equations, Chern-Simons theories, wave maps, incompressible Euler/MHD equations
2026 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science (Physics & Mathematics); ICM 2026 invited speaker; KAIST undergrad, PhD Princeton (advisor: Sergiu Klainerman)

Professor, Department of Mathematics (also Distinguished Professor, KIAS)
sug.woo.shin@berkeley.edu
Specialty: number theory — automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, and the Langlands program
Ho-Am Prize (2025); Sloan Fellowship (2013); two-time IMO gold medalist for Korea (perfect score in 1995); SNU undergrad, PhD Harvard (advisor: Richard Taylor)

Associate Professor + The Korea Foundation Chancellor’s Chair in Korean Language & Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Korean Program)
anjinsoo@berkeley.edu
Specialty: Korean film history, East Asian cinema, film genre and authorship, history and memory, film censorship
Tied to the Center for Korean Studies; author of Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema (UC Press, 2018); PhD in Film & TV from UCLA; joined Berkeley in 2012

Associate Professor of English / C.K. Cho Chair, Center for Korean Studies
stevenlee@berkeley.edu
Specialty: 20th-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet/post-Soviet studies
Author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution (Columbia UP, 2015); currently chairs Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies

Professor of Law and Political Science (affiliated faculty in Philosophy), Jurisprudence and Social Policy program
ssong@law.berkeley.edu
Specialty: political and legal philosophy, citizenship and immigration law and policy, multiculturalism, freedom of speech and religion
Born in Seoul, immigrated to the U.S. at age six; PhD in Political Science from Yale; as of early 2026, Associate Dean leading the JSP and Legal Studies programs

Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law (at Berkeley Law since 1993); supervises the Korea Law Center, Public Law and Policy Program, and California Constitution Center
yooj@law.berkeley.edu
Specialty: constitutional law, administrative law, national security, international law, separation of powers