Sohyun Park

Assistant Professor

Spatial data analytics, economic geography, land use sciences

Sohyun Park is an assistant professor of Computational and Data Sciences at George Mason University Korea. She earned her doctorate in geography from The Ohio State University, where her dissertation examined socio-environmental change in the Korean strawberry industry. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental science, economic geography, and spatial data analytics.

She is particularly interested in developing and applying quantitative methods to analyze spatial flow data—including human mobility, knowledge exchange, and international trade—to understand how interactions among people, organizations, and places shape regional change.

Selected Publications

Jin, C., Park, S. †, Lim, S., & Kim, J. (2026). “Measuring spatiotemporal income segregation in US metropolitan areas: A flow-based spatial autocorrelation approach”, Applied Geography, 192, 104050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.104050

Park, S., Yoon, J., Kim, M., & Koo, Y.† (2024). "Exploring the spatiotemporal characteristics of path creation: A case study of the pharmaceutical industry in Incheon". Korean Journal of Urban Studies, 25, 309-342. https://doi.org/10.34165/urbanr.2024..25.309

Grants and Fellowships

(2026-30) Principal Investigator, NRF funded. Project title: A GIS-Based Network Analysis Framework for Crisis-Induced Mobility and Regional Reconfiguration

(2026) Collaborative Researcher, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy funded. Mason Korea Seed Research. Project title: Data and Economic Security: Developing a Korean Platform for Strategic Resource Supply Chain Crisis Response.

(2025-28) Collaborative Researcher, NRF funded. Collaborative Research for Humanities and Social Sciences. Project title: Evolving Global Value Chains, Declining Industrial Cities?: Path Changes in Korean Export-based Manufacturing and Regions.

(2024-25) Principal Investigator, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy funded. Mason Korea Seed Research. Project title: Spatio-temporal evolution of technological innovation activities in non-core regions, 2000-2022.

(2022-25) Principal Investigator, NRF funded. Basic Science Research Program. Project title: Land use dynamics in rural area: a spatial model combining residential mobility data with satellite imagery interpretation.

Courses Taught

CDS 205 Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

CDS 303 Scientific Data Mining

CSI 500 Computational Science Tools

Education

Ph.D. in Geography, The Ohio State University, 2021
M.A. in Geography, Seoul National University, 2015
B.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, 2012