Bum Seok Chun, Ph.D.
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Bumseok Chun, Ph.D, is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy focusing on urban analytics for using spatial big data relevant to coupled human-environment systems and statistical simulations by spatial econometrics and machine learning techniques. He received a Ph.D degree in City and Regional Planning at Ohio State. Prior to joining the faculty at TSU, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Center for Geographic Information Systems at Georgia Tech. He has a belief in research that contributes to the real world, leads to practical preventive interventions that identify environmental determinants, and suggests a remedy via advanced geospatial and statistical modeling. With this research interests, Dr. Chun has combined environmental studies with a proclivity towards technology, especially advanced and practical environmental policy including microclimate change, satellite-derived air pollution, environmental impacts of emerging transportation systems and public health risk in mega-region areas by urban big data analytics. Recently, for the area of urban climate, he is currently working on GIS-based UHI analysis to resolve diverse environmental problems based on the relationships between three-dimensional urban form and urban temperatures in the micro scale. Dr. Chun has also worked on transportation projects as a member of USDOT Tier 1 UTC.