Prior to joining CSI as an Assistant Professor of Finance, Hyoung Suk Shim was an economist at the ADP Research Institute of Automatic Data Processing, a substitute lecturer of the School of Business, and a senior econometrician of the CUNY High Performance Computing Center. He studied for his PhD in Economics at The Graduate School of The City University of New York, and received a BA in Economics and a BS in Applied Statistics from Yonsei University, Korea. He specializes in large-scale statistical computing that enhances the statistical analysis of big data on high performance computing systems, and general econometric methods (time series and panel data analysis). His current research interest relates to the financial econometrics of high frequency trading data.