Dr. Sihyun An | Financial Technology | Research and Development Excellence Award

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies | South Korea

Dr. Sihyun An is an emerging scholar whose research bridges AI in finance, asset pricing, real estate econometrics, business analytics, sustainability, and large language models, driving innovations in data-centric financial intelligence. His work covers housing price appraisal, market transparency, sentiment-driven valuation, floor-plan complexity, green sustainability indices, rare-event market risk, and LLM-based reasoning for property markets. He has published influential studies in leading journals including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, Financial Innovation, Scientific Reports, and Annals of Nuclear Energy, contributing advances in AI-enabled valuation models, hedonic datasets, transparent ML-based appraisal, and *cross-market information dynamics. His ongoing projects span quantum simulation in asset pricing, AI-powered nuclear decommissioning intelligence, financial crash forecasting, and synthetic sentiment generation using LLMs. With 20 citations, 7 publications, and an h-index of 3, he has presented at major international conferences and earned multiple distinctions for excellence in research, data science, and innovation, underscoring his rising impact at the intersection of technology, finance, and real-estate analytics.

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Featured Publications

Bae, S., Jung, L., Nam, S., An, S., & Ahn, K. (2025). Housing price estimation and reasoning based on a large language model. In Finance and Large Language Models (pp. 27–42). Springer Nature.

An, S., Bae, S., Song, Y., & Ahn, K. (2024). Aggregated hedonic dataset with a green index: Busan, South Korea. Data in Brief, 57, 111009.

An, S., Ahn, K., Bae, J., & Song, Y. (2024). Economic impacts of a subway system: Exploring local contexts in a metropolitan area. Research in Transportation Business and Management, 56, 101188.

An, S., Kim, J., Choi, G., Jang, H., & Ahn, K. (2024). The effect of rare events on information-leading role: Evidence from real estate investment trusts and overall stock markets. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 1628.

Byun, H., Park, J., An, S., Kim, J., Kim, J., Lee, D. Y., & Lee, B. (2024). Intelligent nuclear decommissioning solution: Code for site characterization and management of overall surveys. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 196, 110212.