Sung-Ha Hwang

Sung-Ha Hwang is an Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Economics at the College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Holding dual PhDs in Economics (2009) and Mathematics (2011), his work bridges behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory, probability theory, and stochastic processes.

• PhD in Economics (2009), dissertation: Three Essays on Conflict and Cooperation
• PhD in Mathematics (2011), dissertation: Spatial Evolutionary Game Theory: Deterministic Approximations, Decompositions, and Hierarchical Multi-scale Models

His research focuses on conflict theory, social preferences, optimal incentives for cooperation, and stochastic evolutionary game theory. Key contributions include analyzing public goods in constrained networks, war of attrition models, and sociolinguistic conventions.

Recent publications (2024-2021) explore game theory, economics of networks, and social dynamics. Collaborators include Samuel Bowles, Luc Rey-Bellet, and Youngwoo Koh.

Active in academic exchanges, he has presented at conferences like SAET (Portugal) and Games (Maastricht), and visited institutions including Santa Fe Institute and Maastricht University.