Education
Aug 2019: Ph.D. in Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST
Feb 2015: M.S. in Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST
Feb 2013: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST
Professional Experience
Jul 2020 – Aug 2021: Research Assistant Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society Policy, KAIST
Aug 2019 – Jul 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Aug 2017 – Aug 2018: Visiting Researcher, Johns Hopkins University
Selected Publications
Woo Taemin, Shin Youjung, Park Beomseon (2024), “The Asilomar Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Accumulation of Technological Determinism,” Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies 24(3): 4–42.
Youjung Shin and Claire Junga Kim (2024), “The Government Should Play a Role Greater Than That of Construction Supervisor in the National Bio-Big Data Infrastructure,” Journal of Korean Medical Science 39(36): e262. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e262
(SCIE)
Shin Youjung (2023), “A Critical Review of Comparative Studies on Korean Science Policy: Focusing on the Early Formation of the Neuroscience Communities in Korea and the U.S.,” Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies 23(2): 37–77.
Youjung Shin (2023), “For or Against the Molecularization of Brain Science?: Cybernetics, Interdisciplinarity, and the Unprogrammed Beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT,” History of the Human Sciences 36(1): 103–130. (2023 Best Paper Award, The Korean History of Science Society)
Youjung Shin (2023), “Screening as Governmental Technology: The Nationwide Collection of Mental Health Data on Students in South Korea,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 78(3): 304–327.
Youjung Shin (2022), “The Transnational Move of Interdisciplinarity: The Beginning of Neuroscience in South Korea, 1970–1990s,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 31(4): 466–489. (2023 Runner-Up for the Outstanding Article in the History of the Neurosciences)
Shin Youjung (2021), “Making Brains in the Daedeok Innopolis: A Study on KAIST’s Relocation to Daedeok and Its Transformation into a University,” Korean Journal of Science and Technology Studies 21(3): 4–37.
Shin Youjung, Woo Taemin, Park Beomseon (2020), “Importing Science Institutions: The Politics of Benchmarking in the Establishment of the Institute for Basic Science,” Korean Journal for the History of Science 42(1): 275–302.
Youjung Shin (2019), “The ‘Spring’ of Artificial Intelligence in its Global ‘Winter’: Korean Language and AI Researchers in the Late 1980s,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 41(4): 71–82.
Youjung Shin and Hanbyul Jeong (2019), “Transition or Tradition: Imagining National R&D Innovation in South Korea,” Novation 1(1): 106–134.
Youjung Shin (2018), “Policy Entrepreneur in the Information Society: Shaping the Interdisciplinarity of Brain Research in Korea,” Minerva 56(2): 231–257.
Books
Park Beomseon, Woo Taemin, Shin Youjung, Basic Science in Society: The Institute for Basic Science and the New Knowledge Ecosystem (Seoul: Hanul, 2016)