Faculty Profile for Dr. Su Yeon Han

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Dr. Su Yeon Han
Assistant Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
ELA 139
phone: (512) 245-2170
Scholarly/Creative Work
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Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Dr. Su Han is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University. She received her Ph.D. in geography from the joint doctoral program between the San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received her M.S. in Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She majored in geography and minored in computer science during her undergraduate study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include spatial data science, social media analytics, health gis, web-based gis, gis-based decision support system, cybergis, cartography, geovisaulization, geovisual analytics, and neighborhood dynamics. For her research project, she currently develops a cyberGIS-based visual analytic system enabling the exploration of geographical health disparities in disaster exposure as well as the identification of vulnerable neighborhoods with respect to their socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Dr.Han is also the core developer and maintainer of CyberGIS-Vis, which is an open-source software tool for interactive geospatial visualization and scalable visual analytics.

Teaching Interests

 cartography, geovisualization, visual analytics, web-based GIS, and geographic information science

Research Interests

 spatial data science, social media analytics, health gis, web-based gis, gis-based decision support system, cybergis, cartography, geovisaulization, geovisual analytics, and neighborhood dynamics

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Han, S. Y., Kang, J.-Y., Lyu, F., Baig, F., Smilovsky, D., Park, J., & Wang, S. (2023). A cyberGIS approach to exploring neighborhood-level social vulnerability for disaster risk management. Transactions in GIS, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13106
  • Park, J., Michels, A. C., Lyu, F., HAN, S. Y., & Wang, S. (2023). Daily changes in spatial accessibility to intensive care unit (ICU) beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA. Health and Place, 154, 102929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102929
  • Lyu, F., Wang, S., Han, S. Y., Catlett, C., & Wang, S. (2022). An integrated cyberGIS and machine learning framework for fine-scale prediction of Urban Heat Island using satellite remote sensing and urban sensor network data. Urban Informatics, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44212-022-00002-4
  • Baig, F., Michaels, A., Xiao, Z., Han, S. Y., Padmanabhan, A., Li, Z., & Wang, S. (2022). CyberGIS-Cloud: A unified middleware framework for cloud-based geospatial research and education (pp. 1–4). Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3535148
  • Park, J., Zhang, H., Han, S. Y., Nara, A., & Tsou, M.-H. (2020). Estimating Hourly Population Distribution Patterns at High Spatiotemporal Resolution in Urban Areas Using Geo-Tagged Tweets and Dasymetric Mapping. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.I.10

Selected Service Activities

Member
Graduate Committee
September 1, 2023-May 31, 2024
Member
Evaluation Committee
September 1, 2022-May 15, 2024
Reviewer / Referee
Transactions in GIS
December 23, 2023
Reviewer / Referee
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
September 12, 2023
Reviewer / Referee
The Professional Geographer
August 9, 2023