Mentor: Hyuk-soo Kwon, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Yunah Chung is a first-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago, pursuing a double major in Computer Science and Business Economics with a minor in Cognitive Science. She is passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and environmental sustainability, a focus shaped by her experience working with nonprofits addressing food waste and composting. Yunah will join the University of Chicago’s Institute of Climate and Sustainability this summer as a research assistant, where she will study how federal and state-level electric vehicle (EV) policies interact and assess how Hyundai’s influence over South Korea’s used-vehicle market may impact EV adoption.