Yongwan Chun

Professor Yongwan Chun is a faculty member in the Geospatial Information Sciences program at the University of Texas at Dallas, affiliated with the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. His academic journey includes a PhD in Geography (2007) and MS in Applied Statistics (2006) from the Ohio State University.

• Research Interests: Methodological advancements in GIScience, spatial statistics, environmental justice, urban crime analysis, population migration, and commodity flow modeling.
• Awards: Emerging Scholar Award (2017) from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.
• Grants: Multiple awards from National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health totaling $1.4 million.

Article Trends reflect expertise in spatial autocorrelation (Moran's I, Geary's C), location-allocation modeling (p-median, p-dispersion), and applications to healthcare accessibility, urban crime patterns, housing market segmentation, and climate impacts. His work integrates GIScience with Bayesian methods, eigenvector filtering, and big data uncertainty.

• Collaborators: Daniel A. Griffith, Hyun Kim, and students like Dongeun Kim and Changho Lee.
• Recent Topics: Trauma center accessibility, snowpack variation modeling, and spatiotemporal crime analysis.

Contact: ywchun@utdallas.edu | Office: GR 3.208, UT Dallas