Curriculum Vitae (as of September 2009)

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Professional Affiliations

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Professional Affiliations

 

Ÿ                   Member, Electronic Documentation Technology Subcommittee at Integrated Forum on Electronic Commerce

Ÿ                 Member, Electronic Commerce Service Technology Subcommittee at Integrated Forum on Electronic Commerce

Ÿ                   Member, Information Systems Audit and Control Association International  (ISACA)

Research Areas

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Research Areas

 

Law and policy on information technology and telecommunications

Ÿ                     Consumer protection and service providers' liability

Ÿ                     Contracts and bargaining power

Ÿ                     Negligence rule

Ÿ                     Information/network ownership

Ÿ                     Intellectual property

Ÿ                     Regulatory efficiency and optimal regulation 

 

Economic effect of technological innovation

Ÿ                     Economic impact of the Internet

Ÿ                     Human behavior under information asymmetry and legal uncertainty

Ÿ                     Policy considerations regarding electronic banking and payment systems

Academic & Professional Experience

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Academic Experience

 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Teaching Assistant (August 2008 - Present)

Fall 2009

Ÿ                     IST 445H Globalization Trends and World Issues (Instructor: Andrea Tapia, Ph.D.)

Ÿ                     SRA 471 Risk, Informatics and the Post Modern World (Instructor: Andrea Tapia, Ph.D.)

 

Fall 2008

Ÿ                     IST 452 Legal & Regulatory Environment of Privacy & Security (Instructor: John Bagby, J.D.)

Ÿ                     IST 453 Legal, Regulatory, Policy Environment of Cyber Forensics (Instructor: John Bagby, J.D.)

 

 

Professional Experience

 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Information Policy Specialist (Spring 2009)

Helped installation of iPass-related policy program at the IT Office at the College of Information Sciences & Technology

 

 

KOREA FINANCIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS & CLEARING INSTITUTE (KFTC)

Seoul, South Korea

Research Analyst (January 2003 - April 2007)

 

* KFTC, a national automated clearing house (ACH) provides the core infrastructure for the nation's banking industry in Korea. It operates 12 interbank payment systems including Interbank Funds Transfer Network, Automated Teller Machine Network, Home/Firm Banking Network, Local Bank Information Network, Housing Subscription Network, Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) Network, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Network and others. KFTC processed 4.9 billion (17 million daily) interbank payment transactions, 8.1 trillion USD in value (28 billion USD daily) in 2006. KFTC also operates two national financial security centers - Korea Financial Information Sharing and Analysis Center (KF-ISAC) and Digital Certificate Center.

 

Ÿ                     Conducted research on policy issues in electronic banking and information technology.

Ÿ                     Authored research articles, some of which were referenced and quoted in newspapers and research papers published by banking and economic research institutes.

Ÿ                     Achieved the status of the youngest CISA in the history of the Institute by passing the CISA exam in 2006.

Ÿ                     Advised as an information technology specialist to the working group on 'Electronic Fund Transfer & Payment Service Bill' (2006) in South Korea from January to August in 2005

Ÿ                     Represented the Institute in the talk with the directors from Department of Payment & Settlement Systems at People's Bank of China (PBOC)

 

* CISA is a certification formally approved by the US Department of Defense in their Information Assurance Technical category (DoD 8570.01-M).

My academic communities

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Academic communities

Scholars and researchers join academic communities to disseminate their ideas and listen to others'. They want to publish papers in learned journals, attend conferences and symposiums, and become a member of forums as editor, editing/steering committee member, observer, etc. For each sub-field of one single discipline, hundreds of journals, conferences, forums, symposiums are out there. 

 

As Information scientist and researcher pursuing the specialty in information technology policy, I am especially interested in legal issues around disputes among fee-based service participants: consumers, end-service providers (in contrast to "end-user"), and intermediaries (e.g., network service providers, software developing companies, etc.). The academic communities I have been attracted to are as follows:

 

Center for E-Commerce at Stanford Law School

The Stanford Law School Center for Ecommerce, part of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology aims at exploring the fast-growing field of electronic commerce law. The Center supports studies of policy, guidelines, and industry practices in the e-commerce area. Due to its professional and interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Center intends to foster enhanced synergy among scholars, policy makers, practicing lawyers, executives, and Stanford Law students.  

 

The research topics and recent project the Center supports fit to my research interest quite well. Main research topics the Center mostly supports include: Consumer protection and distance selling; copyright and information society; cyber-crime; domain names; e-commerce; e-money; e-signatures; international private law (applicable contract law); jurisdiction; privacy/data protection; taxes.

 

One of the Center's recent projects is "EU E-Commerce Law Project" co-sponsored by the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, the Stanford Center for E-Commerce, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies). The main theme of the project is to examine the law and policy of the European Union regarding online businesses and relevant economic governance issues and regulatory practices affecting the online EU-U.S. marketplace.

 

 

John M. Olin Center for Law & Economics at University of Michigan

The John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at University of Michigan Law School supports research in law, technology, and economics with the aim to further the understanding of the economics of innovation and intellectual property, networks and telecommunication, internet and information, and related areas. The Center attracts me in that they support research which will enhance the understanding of the information-technology-oriented tensions using the combined methods of law, technology, and economics. My research goal is: [1] First to identify who is responsible for economic loss from network failure in the fee-based services on the Internet by analyzing network technologies and applying legal theories on contract; [2] to allocate the loss to appropriate parties using the methods in law and economics.

 

 

Samuleson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law was established in January 2001 as the first in the United States to conduct legal, interdisciplinary, technology policy relevant research. The name of the Clinic is after its founder, Professor Pamela Samuelson at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, who is a renowned expert in intellectual property law. Since its founding, the Clinic has been working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and legislators, and academic researchers across a range of issues including free speech, privacy, intellectual property, electronic commerce, voting systems, and open source software   

 

Education

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Education

 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity Park

Doctoral Program, College of Information Sciences and Technology         

August 2008 - Present

 

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor

Dual Masters Program, School of Information & Department of Economics

January 2008 - July 2008                                                             


GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta                          

Doctoral Program, School of Public Policy                                    

August 2007 - December 2007

 

YONSEI UNIVERSITY, Seoul, South Korea

Bachelor of Business Administration (2002)

 

Honors, Awards, and Scholarship

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Honors, Awards, and Scholarship

 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Ÿ                       Robert W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship (2008)

 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Ÿ                       Fulbright Scholarship (2007-2008)

 

ROTARY FOUNDATION

Ÿ                       Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship (2007) - waived

 

YONSEI UNIVERSITY

Ÿ                     Dean's List, Highest Honors Student (Fall 2001)  

Ÿ                     Dean's List, High Honors Student (Spring 2001)     

 

CHANG KANG FOUNDATION

Ÿ                       Chang Kang Foundation Scholarship (2000)

My future publication/presentation outlets

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The Berkeley Technology Law Journal

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) is a publication of the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. It has passed 23 years since the first issue was published in 1986. The coverage areas of the BTLJ are intellectual property, antitrust, cyberlaw, telecom, biotech and business law. In addition to the Journal's primary mission of publishing quality articles, BTLJ has been organizing technology law conferences in cooperation with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The BTLJ has been appreciated to help keep judges, policymakers, practitioners, and the academic community abreast of the technology law field.

 

The journal reflects the academic excellence and tradition of the university's intellectual law program which is evaluated one of the best programs in the United States. One of my long standing research questions is "Whose information is whose? This question presents widely acknowledged legal question to law professors and researchers in the digital era when the conventional approaches of existing IP law are losing its implication. My goal is to contribute to the cyberlaw area by publishing the alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

 

 

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review

Founded in 1994, the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (MTTLR) is one of the first online law journals in the world with the use of interactive media to promote informed discourse about the interrelated legal, social, business, and public policy issues raised by emerging technologies. The journal's primary study is on how to deal with the tensions created by advances in computing, telecommunications, biotechnology, multimedia, networking, information and other technologies.

 

The journal attracts me in the two ways: [1] Relevance to my research interest and [2] the approaches I am pursuing for the issues I am interested in studying. The issues that the MTTLR has been studying best match with mine. As for the issues, the main theme of the issues dealt in the journal is the unprecedented tension at personal and social levels which originate from the advancement of information and telecommunications technologies. The MTTLR has been also efficiently cooperating with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at University of Michigan Law School, which approaches these issues with combination of law, technology, and economics. Since I have passion for law and economics in that I am totally with the criticism about court decisions which are based on the subjective judgment which lacks quantitative objectivity, which is required in addressing tensions between confronting adversaries. Publishing a paper in the MTTLR means that the publishing scholar has an extensive mastery of law, technology, and law which is an academic goal of mine.

 

 

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution

I am also very interested in becoming the member of the 23 year official law journal of the American Bar Association's Section on Dispute Resolution, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (JDR) published by The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law. The JDR is dedicated to the exploration of alternative forums for and methods of dispute resolution, such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, summary jury trials, and mini-trials.

 

The JDR publishes four issues annually, consisting of three articles issues and an annotated bibliography issue. In addition to editing and publishing journals, the JDR sponsors symposia to facilitate discussion on cutting-edge issues within the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Also, the JDR also sponsors the Schwartz Lecture, which annually brings a nationally recognized scholar in the field of alternative dispute resolution to the College of Law to address issues of interest and concern to both students and practitioners.

 

I found the journal doing key-word search for the papers which study dispute resolution and third-party liability of ISPs in e-commerce. I have found out that papers in this topic are published in JDR more than in any other law journals.

 

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference

Telecommunication policy is also a field deeply related with my research topic in perspective of the public policy approach to the responsibility and capacity of network service providers. TPRC covers the full range of legal, economic, social, and technical issues on national/international information and communications policy, which include: telephony, radio/television broadcasting, cable/satellite communication, Internet communication, technological convergence and its regulatory implications, intellectual property, electronic commerce, communications privacy and security, computer crime, and economic development. TPRC' two primary goals are: [1] dissemination of research on current issues around communications policy; and [2] promotion of new research on emerging issues. Due to its professional and interdisciplinary nature like other IT fields, researchers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations together with policy makers participate in TPRC.

 

TPRC has its root to the first Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (subsequently renamed TPRC) organized by Bruce Owen in 1972, when he was with the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House. With growing telecommunications usage and expansion of industry, TPRC was reorganized and given a more formal institutional structure from 1986 with scholars' efforts such as Roger Noll of Stanford University and Henry Geller of Duke University.

 

Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following (for more detailed descriptions see http://www.tprc.org):

   - Network Competition, Policy and Management

   - Next Generation and all-IP Networks: Policy, Regulatory, Architectural and Societal Issues

   - Spectrum Management and Wireless Futures: Anywhere, Anytime Communications and its Implications

   - Societal Issues: Universality and Affordable Access; ICTs for Development and Growth

   - The Transformation and Future of Media in an Age of User- and Community-Produced Creativity

   - The Transformation and Future of Intellectual Property and Digital Rights

   - Privacy, Security, Identity and Trust

   - Internet Governance and Institutional Strategies for Information Policy


The 36th Research Conference was held during September 26 - September 28, 2008 at The National Center for Technology & Law, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA.

Research Interests - Passion

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Responsiblity as the First Generation of Digital Era

Whose information is whose?  I have spent the last ten years, or one third of my life, searching for answers to this metaphysical question.  While I have conducted extensive research on financial information technology and policy, paradoxically, the deeper I go, the more questions and complexity I discover.

My research interests revolve around how current legal systems and theories on information ownership and related technologies should change in Information Age.  I am interested in how to resolve disputes over undefined legal, technological, and economic issues on digital information ownership in various contexts.

The reason I pay attention to the conflicts over digital information is that they are inevitable and ubiquitous, since we are not prepared enough for the new paradigm while digitization is becoming prevalent in every single sector of our society.  Unless we dedicate ourselves to working on this issue, the conflicts will be uncontrollable in the near future.  It is our generation's responsibility to take appropriate initial steps in establishing information and communication technology policy, because no generation before ours has experienced this new paradigm.  Since our decisions will have an extensive and long-term impact on future generations, we should make every effort to build a solid foundation on which well-considered policies can be made. 

Publications & Works

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Publications and Works

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

 

Tapia, A., Jang, J., and Blodgett, B. (2009) "The Merging of Telecommunications Policy and Science Policy through Broadband Stimulus Funding." Published in the Proceedings of the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference. September 25-27. Washington, DC.

 

 

Professional Journal Articles

Referred Journal Articles

 

J. Jang (2006) "The Study on Cross-Border Payment Systems between Korea, Japan, and China: Technical Considerations and Consumer Protection", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.24, pp.31-69, KFTC

 

J. Jang (2006) "The Evolution and Consumer Selection of Payment Instruments:  Exploration on Various Theories", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.26, pp.97-110, KFTC

 

J. Jang (2005) "The Impact of Non-banks' Participation in the Payment System: Analysis of Payment System Risk and Policy Considerations", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.21, pp.91-136, KFTC

 

J. Jang (2005) "The Future of Payment Terminals: Trend and Issues", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.22, pp.29-59, KFTC

 

E. Oh, J. Jang (2005) "Comparative Analysis on the Payment Statistics of the Selected 14 Countries: Landscape of the Past (1994~2003) and Future", Payment Systems & Information Technology (Special Edition) KFTC

 

J. Jang (2003) "Adopting Biometrics as an Identification Tool in Electronic Banking: Technical and Policy Issues for Consumer Protection", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.13, pp.1-49, KFTC

 

J. Jang (2003) "The Recent Trend of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) and Challenges toward Market Penetration", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.10, KFTC

 

J. Jang (2003) "Will Online Private Banking Take Off?: The Pros and Cons, Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.11, pp.1-33,  KFTC

 

 

Other Journal Articles

 

J. Jang (2004) "What is the ATM Total Management System (ATMS)?: Impact of New Technology on the Efficiency of E-Banking", Payment Systems & Information Technology, vol.15, pp.1-33, KFTC

 

 

Translations

 

J. Jang (2007) "Payment systems in France", Payment and settlement systems in selected countries (Red Book) (2003) Bank for International Settlements

 

J. Jang (2007) "Payment systems in Sweden", Payment and settlement systems in selected countries (Red Book) (2003) Bank for International Settlements

 

J. Jang (2007) "General principles for international remittance services" (2006) Consultative report, The World Bank, Bank for International Settlements

 

J. Jang (2005) "Payment systems in China", Payment and settlement systems in selected countries (Red Book) (2003) Bank for International Settlements

 

J. Jang (2004) "Payment Systems Efficiency, Policy Approaches, and the Role of the Central Bank" (2003) Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland

 

J. Jang (2004) "Outsourcing Technology Services", IT Examination Handbook, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)

 

J. Jang (2003) "The Internet and the Future of Institutional Payment Systems" (2002) Draft Issues Paper, Financial Internet Working Group (FIWG) Information Society Technologies 

 

 

Internal Working Papers

J. Jang (2007) "Where Are We and Where Should We Be Headed?: Analysis of Domestic Interbank Payment Statistics (2002-2006)", KFTC

 

J. Jang (2006) "Securities Companies' Participation in Retail Payment Systems and Its Impact on Banks: Pros and Cons", KFTC

 

J. Jang (2005) "The Landscape of Payment Systems and Electronic Banking Policy in China: Talk with Directors from Department of Payment & Settlement Systems at People's Bank of China (PBOC)", KFTC

 

J. Jang (2005) "Three Scenarios for Implementation of the Shared Biometric Database for Electronic Banking", KFTC

 

[Policy Report]  J. Jang (2004) "Survey on the Electronic Payment Service Providers in Korea:  Findings and Suggestions on Supervisory Loopholes", KFTC

 

[Strategy Report]  J. Jang (2004) "Redenomination and its Managerial Impact on KFTC:  Review from Institutional, Technological, and Strategic Perspectives", KFTC