Dr. Seo had worked on financial derivatives market as a quant and trader before being appointed as a professor of business administration at UNIST in 2012. The research is focused on giving solutions to the financial market based on his experiences. He published papers on financial market volatility and liquidity. He is also in the process of developing a model to stabilize the financial market.
He is also interested in energy trading and environmental policies, which leads him to serve as the director of the Center for International Energy Trading and participate as a member of the Carbon Neutral Institute. Financial market analysis and forecasting using AI techniques is one of his important research topics as well.