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.

Recently, he was interested in energy trading and founded ”Energy Commodity Trading and Financial Engineering” program and “Center for International Energy Trading”. He is also interested in blockchain technology and has established ”UNIST Blockchain Research Center” and serves as the director. Financial market analysis and forecasting using AI techniques is one of his important research topics as well.