Hemin Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Policy & Administration  at Incheon National University (INU) in Songdo International Business District, South Korea. Before joining INU, she was as an Assistant Professor in AI Convergence Institute and Graduate School of Global Cooperation at Hallym University in South Korea, where she also directed the Gangwon State-Local Government Executive Global Leadership Program. 

Her research frames the city as the outcome of administrative rules established by state and local governments, viewing it simultaneously as a vital channel for cultivating public value. In her dissertation, Urban Quality Follows Rules of Bureaucracy, she explored how cities can be better managed through effective regulations and the expertise of public servants—factors that collectively improve the everyday physical quality of life for ordinary citizens using administrative datasets of 116 low- and middle- income countries. Her recent study on city competitiveness received the Kooiman Prize which is the Best Article published in 2023 in the top public administration journal, Public Management Review.

Before transitioning to academia, she worked as an architectural and urban designer at Wallace, Roberts & Todd in Philadelphia, served as an assistant project manager at SK Engineering & Construction, and was a project investigator for the Social Survey on Corruption Perception at the Korea Institute of Public Administration.