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 earned her Ph.D. in Geography through the joint doctoral program between San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also holds an M.S. in Geography and Geographic Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she majored in Geography and minored in Computer Science.
Her research interests include spatial data science, social media analytics, health GIS, web-based GIS, GIS-based decision support systems, CyberGIS, cartography, geovisualization, geovisual analytics, and neighborhood dynamics. Her current research focuses on environmental justice and climate change, specifically exploring disparities in human mobility across different socioeconomic and demographic groups during heatwaves. Additionally, she investigates evacuation-related travel patterns during the Palisades and Eaton wildfires using millions of foot traffic data points collected from mobile apps. Her work also examines accessibility to shelters during wildfire events.
Dr. Han is also the core developer and maintainer of CyberGIS-Vis, 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., Kim, J., Jiang, Y., Kang, J.-Y., Han, C., Michels, A., & Wang, S. (n.d.). CyberGIS-Vis for Democratizing Access to Scalable Spatiotemporal Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study of COVID-19. https://doi.org/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3681777.3698474
  • Jiang, Y., Yuan, Y., & Han, S. Y. (2024). An entropy-based measurement for understanding origin-destination trip distributions: a case study of New York City taxis. Big Earth Data, 8, 673--702. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2024.2363548
  • 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

Selected Service Activities

Member
Alumni Committee
September 1, 2024-September 15, 2025
Member
Evaluation Committee
September 1, 2024-May 15, 2025
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS)
May 1, 2025-May 1, 2025
Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
March 16, 2025-March 16, 2025
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Planning Education and Research
November 30, 2024-November 30, 2024