News
2024
May 2024
Published a co-authored article "Examining the socio-spatial patterns of bus shelters with deep learning analysis of street-view images: A case study of 20 cities in the U.S." in Cities. Available online now!
February 2024
Published a co-authored article "Exploring the limitations in how ChatGPT introduces environmental justice issues in the United States: A case study of 3,108 counties" in Telematics and Informatics. Available online now!
2023
November 2023
Delivered a guest lecture on "Generative AI, cities and real estate" in the course Technological Change, Innovation, and Real Estate at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
October 2023
Presented two papers, "An Examination of the Spatial Coverage and Temporal Variability of Google Street View (GSV) Images in Small- and Medium-sized cities: A People-Based Approach" and "Discovering Inequality in Green Space Exposure from Street View Images: A Case Study in 25 Small- and Medium-Sized Cities in the U.S." at the 2023 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 63rd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
September 2023
Presented "Understanding Place Identity with Generative AI" at the GIScience 2023, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
June 2023
Recent piece "AI tools are rapidly changing how we imagine the urban environment" is out in Dezeen, written by Fábio Duarte and Washington Fajardo, co-written by Martina Mazzarello and Kee Moon Jang. Please take a read (link) !
June 2023
Delivered an invited talk entitled "Urban analytics for human-centered planning and design + Career development in urban studies" at Seoul National University, Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Graduate Lecture Series.
June 2023
Published a preprint "Understanding Place Identity with Generative AI" in arXiv as 1st author.
May 2023
Delivered an invited talk entitled "Urban analytics for human-centered planning and design: what can data tell us about our urban experience?" at University of Seoul, Department of Architecture, 2023 Spring Special Lecture Series.
May 2023
Delivered an invited talk entitled "Urban Analytics for Human-centered Planning and Design" at Urban Design Institute of Korea, Big Data + Inter-disciplinary Research Board Special Seminar, Data-driven Design.
Mar 2023
Presented "Discovering inequality in green space exposure from street view images: a case study in 25 small- and medium-sized cities in the U.S." in GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Urban Visual Intelligence at the 2023 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG2023), Denver, CO, USA.
Mar 2023
Published an article "An examination of the spatial coverage and temporal variability of Google Street View (GSV) images in small-and medium-sized cities: A people-based approach" in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems as 2nd and corresponding author.
Mar 2023
Joined MIT Senseable City Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Good to be back!
2022
Nov 2022
Delivered an invited talk entitled "What Can Data Tell Us About Our Urban Experience?" at KAIST Urban Design Lab Seminar Series.
Nov 2022
Joined EntreReality as a Research Specialist and will be conducting research on 3D human pose estimation to create realistic avatars for an interactive metaverse platform.
Sep 2022
Registered a Korea Patent "Demand forecasting method for mobility-on-demand services" (Patent No. 10-2441523).
Aug 2022
Received PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Looking forward to what comes next!
May 2022
Successfully defended my doctoral dissertation.
Special thanks to my committee members: Prof. Youngchul Kim, Prof. Seung-Ook Lee, Prof. Albert Tonghoon Han, Dr. Fabio Duarte, and Prof. Jae Seung Lee.
May 2022
Presented "How Do Regeneration Projects Change Crowdsourced Place Identity?" at the 2022 American Planning Association National Planning Conference (NPC22), San Diego, CA, USA.
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Mar 2022
Joined MIT Senseable City Lab on campus for the period of Mar 2022 until May 2022. Glad to be here in Cambridge, MA.
Feb 2022
Successfully passed the doctoral dissertation proposal. Special thanks to my committee members: Prof. Youngchul Kim, Prof. Seung-Ook Lee, Prof. Albert Tonghoon Han, Dr. Fabio Duarte, and Prof. Jae Seung Lee.
Jan 2022
Published an article "Redesigning urban elements and structures considering autonomous vehicles: Preparing design strategies for wide implementation in cities" in Cities as co-1st author.
2021
Aug 2021
Published an article "Empirical analysis of building energy consumption and urban form in a large city: A case of Seoul, South Korea" in Energy & Buildings as 2nd author.
Jul 2021
Selected as Young-Han Kim Global Leader Scholarship 2021 recipient.
Mar 2021
Registered a Korea Patent "Device and method for expressing urban identity using hashtag".
Feb 2021
Joined MIT Senseable City Lab as a Visiting Student for the period of Feb 2021 until Feb 2022.
2020
Oct 2020
Published an article "Urban Green Accessibility Index: a measure of pedestrian-centered accessibility to every green point in an urban area" in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information as 1st author.
Aug 2020
Published an article "Energy Consumption Prediction in Vietnam with an Artificial Neural Network-based Urban Growth Model" in Energies as 2nd author.
2019
Nov 2019
Received Excellence Award in the 10th National Development Technology Fair hosted by the Korea Land and Housing Corporation.
Sep 2019
Article "Crowd-sourced Cognitive Mapping: a new way of displaying people's cognitive perception of urban space" selected as Featured Article in KAIST Breakthroughs.
Sep 2019
Started lecturing at Solbridge International School of Business, Woosong University.
Aug 2019
Presented "Spatial-Property Based Clustering of Street Segments to Predict Human Behavioral Patterns in the Urban Environment" at the 2019 International Conference of Asian-Pacific Planning Societies (ICAPPS 2019), Seoul, Korea.
June 2019
Published an article "Crowd-sourced Cognitive Mapping: a new way of displaying people’s cognitive perception of urban space" in PLOS ONE as 1st author.
May 2019
Presented an abstract "Which Green Space Are Easily Accessible for Pedestrians in a City?" at the 50th Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA 50), Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Mar 2019
Assigned as lab manager at Urban Design Lab, KAIST.
Jan 2019
Passed the doctoral qualifying exam and became a Ph.D. candidate at Urban Design Lab, KAIST.
2018
Nov 2018
Presented "Improvements in Decaying Industrial Area for Value Creating with an Industry 4.0 Perspective: Daejeon Industrial Complex " at the 31st KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Kyoto, Japan.
Feb 2018
Received M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST.
2017
Nov 2017
Presented "Design Elements for Autonomous Vehicle Transit System" at the 30th KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan.
Aug 2017
Received Best Presentation Award for presenting "Collective Place Identity " at the 2017 International Conference of Asian-Pacific Planning Societies (ICAPPS 2017), Nagoya, Japan.
2016
Dec 2016
Presented "Objectifying Place Identity Using Georeferenced Data from Location-based Social Media" at the 29th KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Hong Kong, China.
