Jiho Park received his Ph.D. degree in Financial Mathematics from Sogang University in 2013, while also working as a risk management consultant for FIST Global. He spent two years at Stonybrook University as a visiting scholar before coming to Texas Tech as a postdoctoral teaching scholar in the fall of 2018, performing research in the MF group. As of fall 2020, Dr. Park is working as a risk analyst for Citigroup in Frisco, TX. His research areas are probability distribution models, risk management and option pricing in financial mathematics, and numerical methods in finance.