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. Her research focused on the socio-environmental change in the Korean strawberry industry. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental science, economic geography, and spatial data analytics.

Her current projects involve (1) associating residential mobility with land use change and (2) analyzing patent data to understand regional industrial dynamics.

Selected Publications

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

Jin, C., Park, S.†, Ha, H. J., Lee, J., Kim, J., Hutchenreuther, J., & Nara A. (2023). “Predicting households' residential mobility trajectories with geographically localized interpretable model-agnostic explanation (GLIME)”. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(12), 2597-2619. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2023.2264921

Park, S.†, Munroe, D., & Xiao, N. (2023). “Visualizing economic drivers of virtual land trade: A case study of global cereals trade”, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50(6), 1695-1698. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231177057

Grants and Fellowships

(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 301 Scientific Information and Data Visualization

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