Rate My Professor Youngbok Ryu

Dr. Ryu holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an M.S. in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University. His research focuses on technological innovation, transportation, environment, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. He is co-director of the Northeastern Lab for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, a U.S. Economic Development Administration University Center, leading research on supplier diversity, and principal investigator for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Knowledge Challenge Grant on supplier diversity in higher education. Key publications include “COVID-19 Response and Prospects of Clean/Sustainable Energy Transition in Industrial Nations: New Insights from a DEA Double SBM Model” (Energies, 2021, with T. Sueyoshi and J.-Y. Yun), “Examining the Relationship between the Economic Performance of Technology-Based Small Suppliers and Socially Sustainable Procurement” (Sustainability, 2021), “Assessing the Performance of Vietnam’s Banks in the Era of COVID-19: A Two-Stage Network DEA Approach” (Sustainability, 2022, with H. Nguyen), “Environmental Assessment and Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region” (Energies, 2021, with T. Sueyoshi), and reports “Promoting Supplier Diversity in Higher Education” and “Addressing the Supplier Diversity Awareness Deficit: The Role of Higher Education Procurement Websites.” He hosts the annual Supplier Diversity Symposium and serves on the university’s Institutional Review Board.