Il-Youp Kwak graduated from Korea University with a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in statistics. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics in 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. minor was in computer science. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities from 2014 to 2017. He worked at Samsung Research from 2017 to 2019. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University. His research interests include deep learning applications and statistical genetics.