Sunghae Jun is a Professor in the Department of Data Science at Cheongju University, Korea, where he has served since 2003. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Statistics from Inha University, Korea, in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. He also earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sogang University, Korea, in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Information Management Engineering from Korea University, Korea, in 2013. From 2000 to 2001, he worked as a Data Mining Consultant at NCR Korea, and from 2009 to 2010, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Statistics at Oklahoma State University, USA. His research interests include Statistical Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Patent Data Analysis, and Text Mining. He received the Academic Excellence Award from Cheongju University in 2015 and 2026, and the Chungseok Academic Award from The Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems in 2021.