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Soyoung Jeon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business at New Mexico State University (NMSU), part of the College of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012) and completed post-doctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on environmental statistics, extreme value analysis, and spatio-temporal modeling, with applications in public health, agriculture, and biomedical research.
Dr. Jeon has led or collaborated on numerous grants, including NMSU COB research mini-grants and the NM Water Resources Research Institute grant on Rio Grande water supply characterization. She teaches AST311 Statistical Applications and AST505 Statistical Inference I, with significant enrollment across in-person and online formats.
Her interdisciplinary work spans environmental health impacts, such as arsenic exposure and HPV prevalence, air pollution effects on cardiorespiratory health, and statistical methods in orthopedic surgery outcomes. She mentors students like Zainab Akinjobi and Somayye Majidi in research projects addressing societal challenges like water resource management and pandemic health impacts.
