Dr. Su Yeon Han

Assistant Professor in GIScience



About


I am an Assistant Professor with a passion for spatial data science and a deep-rooted curiosity to explore our world through the lens of cutting-edge geographic information technologies. My research interest encompasses a wide range of areas within GIS, including web-based GIS, CyberGIS, GIS-based decision support systems, geovisualization, geovisual analytics, social media anlaytics, human mobility, neighborhood dynamics, and health GIS.


Experiences

POSITIONS: Faculty

  • From Aug 2022

    Assistant Professor in Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at Texas State University

  • Jan 2021 to July 2022

    Teaching Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies in Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science

    Research Fellow in CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies

    at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Experiences

POSITIONS: Researcher

  • May 2020 to Jan 2021

  • Post-doctoral Research Associate in CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (Director: Dr. Shaowen Wang) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Dec 2017 to Dec 2019

  • Post-doctoral Research Researcher at Center for Geospatial Sciences, University of California, Riverside (Director: Dr. Sergio Rey)

  • Oct 2016 to Dec 2017

  • Post-doctoral researcher at Center for Human Dynamics in Mobile Ages, San Diego State University

 

Education

PhD in Geography

  • Doctor of Philosophy

    • Department of Geography, Joint Doctoral Program, San Diego State University and University of California Santa Barbara
    • Advisor: Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou
    • Ph.D Dissertation Title: Discovering Spatiotemporal Relationships between Cyberspace and Real Space and Re-examining Theories in Geography with Social Media and Big Data

 

Education

MS in Geography & Geographic Information Science

  • Master of Science

    • The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
    • Advisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang
    • Master’s Thesis Title: A CyberGIS Environment for Spatiotemporal Analysis: A Case Study of China Mortality Data

 

Education

BA in Geography

  • Bachelor of Arts

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Geography Major (Geographic Information Science concentration)
    • Computer Science Minor

 

Projects

CyberGIS-Viz for Democratizing Access to Scalable Geovisualization

CyberGIS-Vis integrates cutting-edge cyberGIS and online visualization capabilities into a suite of software modules for visualization and visual analytical approaches to knowledge discovery based on geospatial data. Key features of the current CyberGIS-Vis implementation include: (1) comparative visualization of spatiotemporal patterns through choropleth maps; (2) dynamic cartographic mapping linked with charts to explore high-dimensional data; (3) reproducible visual analytics through integration with CyberGIS-Jupyter; and (4) multi-language support including both Python and Javascript.

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Projects

Vulnerable Neighborhood Explorer

Vulnerable Neighborhood Explorer (VNE) is a cyberGIS-based visual analytics tool that allows users to (1) delineate neighborhoods based on their selection of variables describing socio-economic and demographic profiles and (2) explore which neighborhoods are susceptible to the impacts of disasters based on specific socio-economic and demographic characteristics. In the case of a pandemic, this tool will help public health officials (1) to understand racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities in the disease outbreak and (2) to make decisions regarding where to distribute healthcare resources.

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Projects

CyberGIS-HIV

CyberGIS-HIV is a Web-based GIS application that visualizes and predicts spatiotemporal patterns of HIV rates in US counties. On the graphical user interface, users can run the model on the fly. As an output of the model, spatiotemporal patterns of estimated HIV rates and key HIV predictors are visualized via the interactive coordinated and multiple views. CyberGIS-HIV enables forecasting how future HIV rates change as HIV predictors (e.g., Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) use rate or HIV test rate) change.

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Projects

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Publications

List of Publications

Complete List

Selected Papers

  • Rey, Sergio, Su Yeon Han, Wei Kang, Elijah Knaap, and Renan Xavier Cortes. “A Visual Analytics System for Space–Time Dynamics of Regional Income Distributions Utilizing Animated Flow Maps and Rank‐based Markov Chains.” Geographical Analysis 52, no. 4 (2020): 537-557. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12239

  • Kang, Wei, Sergio Rey, Levi Wolf, Elijah Knaap, and Su Yeon Han. “Sensitivity of sequence methods in the study of neighborhood change in the United States.” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 81 (2020): 101480. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101480

  • Han, Su Yeon, Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Wei Kang, and Levi Wolf, “Adaptive Choropleth Mapper: An Open-Source Web-based Tool for Synchronous Exploration of Multiple Variables at Multiple Spatial Extents.” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8, no.11 (2019): 509. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8110509

  • Han, Su Yeon, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Elijah Knaap, Sergio Rey, and Guofeng Cao. “How Do Cities Flow in an Emergency? Tracing Human Mobility Patterns during a Natural Disaster with Big Data and Geospatial Data Science.” Urban Science 3, no. 2 (2019): 51. DOI: 10.3390/urbansci3020051

  • Han, Su Yeon, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, and Keith C. Clarke. “Revisiting the death of geography in the era of Big Data: the friction of distance in cyberspace and real space.” International Journal of Digital Earth 11.5 (2018): 451-469. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2017.1330366

  • Yang, Jiue-An, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Chin-Te Jung, Christopher Allen, Brian H. Spitzberg, Jean Mark Gawron, and Su-Yeon Han. “Social media analytics and research testbed (SMART): Exploring spatiotemporal patterns of human dynamics with geo-targeted social media messages.” Big Data & Society 3, no. 1 (2016): 2053951716652914. DOI:10.1177/2053951716652914

  • Han, Su Yeon, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, and Keith C. Clarke. “Do Global Cities Enable Global Views? Using Twitter to Quantify the Level of Geographical Awareness of US Cities.” Plos One 10, no. 7 (2015): e0132464. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132464

Teaching

Courses Taught

  • Texas State University

    • GEO 7361: Advanced GIS (Seminar)
    • GEO 3411: Maps and Map Making
    • GEO 7362: Geovisulization

  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

    • GEOG 205: Business Location Decisions
    • GEOG 380: GIS II: Spatial Prob Solving
    • GEOG 489: Programming for GIS
    • GEOG 517: Geospatial Visualization & Visual Analytics