Please join us in welcoming our newest team member, Dr. Yoehan Oh. He recently joined our initiative as a Postdoctoral Associate. At Yale, Dr. Oh is affiliated within the Department of Computer Science, and with a mentorship by Computer Science Professor Theodore Kim.
Here’s more about Dr. Oh in his own words:
I’m an interdisciplinary researcher whose work draws from Science and Technology Studies, history of computing, critical platform studies, and Asian and Asian diaspora studies.
My doctoral dissertation research sought to examine transnationally dispersed sociopolitical dynamics of the contemporary information and media technologies, particularly a non-U.S. search engine as non-Western/Anglophone and non-Sino-centered/Chinese ways of building and knowing our worlds, in national (South Korea), regional (East Asia), transpacific (US - Korea/Asia) contexts.
My postdoctoral research project is to understand the history of computer science research and professional landscapes, from the Asian American history perspective. To be specific, this interdisciplinary project looks into database systems research and commercialization community, with two focuses: (i) the database research commercialization efforts in the 1980s and 1990s era when Asian American talents and capital flowed in the U.S., and (ii) debates on the properly comprehending database research and system building efforts since the 2000s onward.