SeoulBigDataForum

Joon Heo Professor, Yonsei University

Session 1 Moderator

Joon Heo is a professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering, and former director of Open and Smart Education (OSE) Center, which was formed in 2014 and in charge of MOOC production. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 and 2001 respectively. In 2000, he joined a start-up company, Forest One Inc., a value-added geospatial information provider and IT consulting company, located in Evanston, IL. For the following five years, he leaded technology developments as CTO and provided technical services to Fortune 500 companies. He joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yonsei University in 2005 as a faculty member. He has published over 100 refereed journal papers and over 150 conference papers. He is currently running a MOOC, “Spatial Data Science and Applications” on Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/learn/spatial-data-science

Alex Pentland Professor, MIT Connection Science, USA

Session 1 Speaker

Building the New Economy: Data as Capital

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and Forbes declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world” along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations’ Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDR, and was central in forging the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy. Recent invited keynotes include annual meetings of OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan.

Bin Jiang Professor, University of Gävle, Sweden

Session 1 Speaker

A New Kind of City Science Built on Living Structure

Dr. Bin Jiang is Professor in GeoInformatics and Computational Geography at University of Gävle, Sweden. He worked in the past with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University College London. He is the primary developer of the software tool Axwoman (http://giscience.hig.se/binjiang/axwoman/) for topological analysis and scaling hierarchy of very large street networks. He invented the new classification scheme head/tail breaks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head/tail_breaks) for scaling analysis and visualization of very big data. He is the founding chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, and co-founding chair of ICA Working Group on Digital Transformation of National Mapping Agencies (https://nationalmapping.icaci.org/). He used to be Associate Editor of international journal Computer, Environment and Urban Systems (2009–2014), and is currently Associate Editor of some international journals such as Cartographica, and Computational Urban Science. His research interests center on geospatial analysis and modeling of urban structure and dynamics, e.g., agent-based modeling, topological analysis and scaling hierarchy applied to street networks, cities, and geospatial big data in general. His recent work focuses on how to transform modern cities to be living or more living towards a sustainable society.

SeungJae Lee Professor, University of Seoul

Session 2 Moderator

Dr Seungjae LEE is a Professor of Transport Planning in University of Seoul. He obtained his PhD in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College London (UCL) in 1994, and worked as a Research Fellow in Department of Statistical Science, UCL, and Korea Transport Institute. His research directions shown in numerous published papers, are to seek and develop scientific approaches in order to make a better society by enhancing sustainable and smart mobility systems. He published how to travel safely in COVID in Science Advances. He has found and served International Journal of Transportation as an Editor-in-Chief, (ESCI). He has also served several editorial boards of SCI journals such as Transportmetrica, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and Proceedings of Municipal Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineering among others.

Heechung Lee Professor, University of Seoul

Session 2 Speaker

Policy Changes in the World Major Cities after COVID-19

Dr. Lee is an Urban Planner & Designer. He is a professor in the Department of Urban Engineering at the University of Urban Sciences and now the Chief of the Seoul Big Data and AI Institute in the University of Seoul. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Seoul National University, and his doctorate in engineering from the Department of Architecture and Urban Landscape at University of Seoul. He served as a research fellow at the Seoul Development Institute (now Seoul Institute), then as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Ajou University, and as a visiting professor at the University of California, USA. He has served as a member of the Cheonggyecheon Restoration Promotion Committee in Seoul, a member of the Urban Architecture Integration Review Committee, a member of Urban Planning Committee in Gyeonggi Province, a design review member of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation, and a member of the Land and Landscape Charter establishment committee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. His main areas of interest include urban planning and design, district unit planning and land-use planning and management. He has recently been very interested in urban cultural space regeneration planning and design, now also very interest in smart city, big data and AI related fields. His major papers include 'Study on indicators of urban creativity' (2011) and 'A study on the urban planning system according to paradigm change' (2014), 'A study on regional revitalization through the concept of spatial resistance' (2015), and A non-face-to-face market research convergence study using Commercial small data. His major books include urban planning (2015), urban design theory (2007), understanding of district unit planning (2005), urban landscape planning (2009), Cases of global urban design (2010), Urban, human and space communication (2013), and he also recently published Customized urban planning (2018), Urban planning in the era of urban regeneration (2019), and Post-corona city change (2021).

Inkyu Park Professor, University of Seoul

Session 2 Speaker

Global Urban Digital Model and a toy modeling of COVID-19 spread

Inkyu Park is a professor of the Physics department at the University of Seoul and is working as the director of the Natural Science Research Institute at the same university. His major is particle physics and he has contributed to many well-known scientific research projects, such as the ALEPH experiment at LEP, the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC, and the CMS experiment at LHC. He served as the Korea CMS National Spokesperson in early 2010s. Having worked in such big international collaborations where dealing with big-data from detectors and accelerators is crucial, he naturally gained expertise in large-scale computing and in big-data environments. Since 2019, he has put his efforts to found the Urban Science Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and he is now leading several scientific projects based on big-data from various sources. His hunger for new insight and deeper knowledge makes him busy all the time but happy.

Cuauhtemoc Anda Sr. Data Scientist, DataSpark, Singapore

Session 2 Speaker

Enriching Mobile Phone Signalling Data – from Process to COVID-19 Use Cases

Temo is a Sr. Data Scientist at DataSpark and a Doctoral candidate in the Singapore-ETH Future Cities Laboratory. Trained in the fields of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, his interest relies on designing new models and implementing state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms to create innovative data products using mobility data. In his PhD work he has further specialized in mobile phone data, its data privacy implications, and probabilistic generative models for transport planning applications.

Jan-Dirk Schmöcker Associate Professor, Kyoto University

Session 2 Speaker

Restrictive and Stimulative Impacts of COVID-19 Policies on Activity Trends: A Case Study of Kyoto

Jan-Dirk Schmöcker is an Associate Professor within the School of Global Engineering and the Department of Urban Management at Kyoto University. He studied at Technical University Berlin in Germany, and in the U.K. at Newcastle University and Imperial College London from where he obtained his PhD. His main research topic is modelling of passenger behaviour in networks including aspects such as fare structures, crowding, bunching and real-time information. Jan-Dirk’s current research interests further focus on the usage of various big data sources to understand travel behaviour. Among others he co-authored the book “Public Transport Planning with Smart Card Data”. Nowadays, he is also looking at travel patterns of tourists in cities as this is an important topic in Kyoto. In his research he uses various large data that can support planning of public transport networks for both tourists and residents.

Wenzhe Sun Postdoctoral Researcher, Kyoto University

Session 2 Speaker

Restrictive and Stimulative Impacts of COVID-19 Policies on Activity Trends: A Case Study of Kyoto

Wenzhe Sun is now working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Intelligent Transport Systems at Kyoto University where he obtained his Ph.D. and M.E. degrees in 2020 and 2016. Before that he received his B.E. degree from Tongji University in 2013. His main research interests include the planning and operation aspects of public transport, shifting from analytical modelling to data-driven approaches. Currently he is focusing on the estimation of high-resolution demand profile for urban transit networks with big data and machine learning models and the impacts of the reshaped activity patterns by COVID-19 on public transport. He has been exposed to a variety of emerging datasets sourced from bus GPS, smartcard, WiFi packet sensor, Twitter and so forth.

Impyeong Lee Professor, University of Seoul

Session 2 Panelist

Impyeong Lee received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, KAIST, Korea, 1991, the M.Sc. degree in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications, University College London, UK, 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Geodetic Science and Surveying at The Ohio State University, USA, 2002. He had worked at Satellite Technology Research Center, KAIST, 1992-1999 and Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, 2002-2003. Since 2003, he has been a faculty member of Dept. of Geoinformatics, The University of Seoul, leading the Laboratory for Senor and Modeling. He also found a venture company for innovative mapping solutions, InnoPAM in 2014 and has operated to date. He has been the head of AI Complex Research Center in the UBA Institute of the University. His main research field is Photogrammetric Computer Vision. Currently, his research interests include mobile mapping, drone photogrammetry, real-time mapping, and AI based data fusion and analysis particularly for smart city applications.

Sangshin Park DVM, MPH, PhD

Session 2 Panelist

Mar. 2019 – Current

Assistant/Associate Professor

Graduate School of Urban Public Health & Department of Urban Big Data Convergence

University of Seoul

Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dec. 2016 – Feb. 2019

Assistant Professor

Alpert Medical School of Brown University,

Providence, RI, USA

Dec. 2013

PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Epidemiology)

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Feb. 2009

MPH in Public Health (Epidemiology)

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Feb. 2007

DVM in Veterinary Medicine

Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea

Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim Associate Professor, Seoul National University

Session 2 Panelist

Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim, Ph.D., is the chair and associate professor of the Department of Environmental Planning and jointly affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Program in Landscape Architecture and the Environmental Planning Institute at Seoul National University (SNU). He is also the director of the SNU Integrated Planning Lab. His fields of expertise lie in land use–transportation–environment interactions, urban health and risk, quality of life, social innovation, and research methods.

Eunyoung Kim Head, Seoul Digital Foundation

Session 3 Moderator

She worked for National Information Society Agency (NIA) and Korea Local Information research & Development Institute (KLID) and is working as Director of the Seoul Digital Foundation (SDF). She has contributed to the informatization of the public sector of Korea, participating in multiple public projects, including the development of a national informatization standard, performance management/evaluation of the national informatization project, and various e-government projects, etc. Since 2015, She has participated in the informatization of the local government, development of a smart city policy, and the development project of a smart city maturity model. Currently, She is a part of multiple projects such as the planning of a data-based smart city service and establishing new digital-related policies, with the goal of implementing them to the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Seunghee Park Professor, Sungkyunkwan University

Session 3 Speaker

Disaster Safety Management Technology in the Intelligent Smart Cities based on Bigdata & AI

SEUNGHEE PARK has been an associate professor at Sungkyunkwan University since March 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2008. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at KAIST from February to September 2008. He also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech., Virginia USA from Oct. 2008 to Feb. 2009. He was a visiting professor at the Center of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech., from July to August 2009.

Jongyoul Park Associate Professor, Seoul National University of Science & Technology

Session 3 Speaker

Visual Intelligence Technology Applied to the Public Sector

He received his BS degree in Computer Engineering from the Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, in 1996, and his MS degree and PhD in Information and Communication Engineering from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Rep. of Korea, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting researcher at the School of Computing, University of Utah, UT, USA. Since 2020, he has been working with the Visual Intelligence Lab. in Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Rep. of Korea. His research interests include visual intelligence, machine learning, and behavior and scene understanding.

Yun Gyu Lee Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

Session 3 Speaker

AI-based Indoor Air Quality Prediction and Smart City Connection Plan for Multi-use Facilities

Education Sep. 1992 – Feb. 1998 Ph.D., Department of Architectural Engineering, Graduate School, Yonsei University Work Experience Jan. 1991 – Current Senior Research Fellow, Building and Urban Research Institute, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology Dec. 2009 – Dec. 2010 Visiting Researcher, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA Dec. 1998 – Dec. 1999 Research Associate, Building Research Institute, Japan Mar. 2009 – Current Adjunct Professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University Sep. 2002 – Current Adjunct Professor, Department of Interior Design, Sookmyong Woman’s University

Jihye Park Principal Manager, Seoul Digital Foundation

Session 3 Speaker

City Building Change Detection using Aerial Imagery

Jihye Park is a principal Manager of the Seoul Digital Foundation, and she is in charge of analysis and research for data-based city problem solving and administrative innovation in the Digital Strategy Department. After graduating from Kyung Hee University with a bachelor's degree, she went on an integrated Master's and Doctoral program and graduated with a Ph.D. in business administration in 2018. She concentrated on the Management Information System, and the major areas of interest include Big Data, Word-of-Mouth, User Activities on the Media and Economic Models.

Yoosin Kim CEO, RTDataLab

Session 3 Panelist

RT Data Lab Founder & Chief Data Scientist Big Data Analytics Dept. Professor at University of Seoul SK C&C Application Architect and Accenture Data Scientist

Moonjung Choi Director, Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning

Session 3 Panelist

Moonjung has twenty years' experience at Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP). She participated in National S&T planning-related work such as technology foresight, technology level evaluation, and technology assessment. She earned her Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology and had 5 years' experience in research lab. She applies this scientific background to set up effective strategies for National S&T policy through her role as the Director of Center for Technology Foresight at KISTEP.

Junyoung Choi Director, Data Science Center, Seoul Institute of Technology

Session 4 Moderator

Dr. Choi received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Urban Planning from Hanyang University. He has 20 years of experience in e-government, housing statistics, national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) and spatial big data research projects and information system development at the Seoul Institute, Korea Local Information and research Development (KLID), and Korea Land and Housing Corporation for 20 years. He also worked as an staff secondment at the UN-Habitat's Safer Cities Program in 2018. In 2020, he joined the Seoul Institute of Technology, where he serves as the Director of the Data Science Center. His research domain at the institute is urban data science and planning decision support based on AV/VR technology. Currently, he is leading research such as "Development of a spatiotemporal epidemic simulation model (STEpiSim) using telecommunication big data (2020)" and "Development of an extended reality-based robot city design for urban robot testing (2021)". “A Study on Changes and Responses to Digital Transformation Cities (2021)”.

Camille Viros Economist/Policy Analyst, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Session 4 Speaker

Urban Changes and Responses by the Digital Transformation

Camille Viros is an Economist/Policy Analyst in the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development (CITY) Division of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) where she is leading the OECD Programme on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth. She also works on National Urban Policy Reviews, as well as on various urban issues such as housing in cities and COVID-19 recovery & resilience in cities. Prior to joining the OECD, she worked as an economist in the private sector in London. She graduated from HEC Paris, the Paris School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris.

Jung Hyun Woo Researcher, City Form Lab at MIT, USA

Session 4 Speaker

How People Determine Personal Value in a Digital Transformation City

Dr. Jung Hyun Woo is an urban designer, planner, and researcher investigating a trade-off method between data-driven urban planning and value-based urban design for long-term and sustainable processes. Her passion has developed out of learning how to accommodate the growth and create more sustainable cities that can nurture active and prosperous communities by examining urban systems, living environments, and city design as integrated fields. She has focused on an empirical research method using spatial network analysis in which a model projects assessment of development impacts on built environments, infrastructure, urban form, and design qualities. She completed a Doctor of Design degree in Urban Design and Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She has been a researcher in the City Form Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and an urban planning consultant for the LandDesign office in the US.

Jong-Young Rha Professor, Dept. of Consumer Science, Seoul National University

Session 4 Speaker

Dr. Rha is a Professor in the Department of Consumer Science and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Human Ecology at Seoul National University Korea. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University, and her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, USA. Before coming to SNU, she worked in the Department of Consumer Studies as an assistant professor with an adjunct professor position at School of Public Policy and Administration at University of Delaware, USA. Dr. Rha currently serves as the Director of Center for Living & Retail at Seoul National University. She is also the Editor of Korean Journal of Consumer Studies. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Korean Academy of Complexity Studies and the Vice President of Korean Society of Consumer Policy and Education and Korean Academy of Financial Consumers. She is also a member of Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee and a member of Consumer Dispute Mediation Committee at Korea Consumer Agency. Her research interests include how ICT (Information and Communication Technology) developments impacts consumers and its surrounding market environments. She has been studying how ICT developments in retail sector create new values for consumers, and what factors affect consumers’ adoption/resistance of such ICT developments. She also studies about the digitalization of retail channels and the consumers issues that arise from such changes including consumer privacy, CBT and C2C/P2P transactions. She has published numerous articles in journals such as International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies, Consumers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior and Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interactions.

Taehyun Kim Director, Smart City Research, Seoul Institute of Technology

Session 4 Speaker

Urban Spatial and Technological Policy Direction of Metaverse City

Dr. Taehyun Kim is a city planner and ICT-based urban analyst. He received a doctoral degree in urban planning from Seoul National University. He has a variety of work experience as a data scientist and urban analyst in SK C&C, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and The Seoul Institute over the past 20 years. Since 2018, he has been working at the Seoul Institute of Technology, leading the Department of Smart City Research. His research area includes the prediction of urban form and land use and the pre-estimation of urban policy impacts. In line with this, he is proactively applying various emerging urban technologies such as big data, smart cities, digital twins, and metaverses to urban planning procedures. He serves as a member of the Seoul Sustainable Development Committee and the S-Net Advisory Committee.

Youngsoo An Director of Centre for Small Business Insights, Seoul Credit Guarantee Foundation

Session 4 Panelist

Director of Centre for Small Business Insights (Now) - Seoul Credit Guarantee Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Ph.D. of Urban Planning and Design (Feb. 2013) - University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Urban Planning and Design
- Title of thesis “A Study on the Development of a Long-term Firm Location Model based on Land use – Transport Model in the Seoul Metropolitan Area”

Dong-seon Chang Brain Scientist and Science Communicator

Session 4 Panelist

Dong-seon Chang is a global expert in neurotechnology and science communication. He is a bestseller author and professional speaker in Germany, Europe and Korea and connected to a large network of global experts and professionals in the field of AI & Technology. Chang is also an innovation leader who can initiate and manage new business opportunities from zero-to-execution. He is currently serving Curious Brain Lab as a founder & CEO, after serving numbers of global companies including Hyundai Motor Group and Siemens GmbH.

Tesoc Hah Chief Architect, SCALe Architecture & Technology

Session 4 Panelist

Tesoc Hah integrates architecture & city with advanced technologies such as IoT, AI and metaverse. He has exhibited his futuristic vision at the Venice Biennale, the National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Havard University, etc. His works include Differential Life Integral City, National Children's Science Museum, and IMhouse. He is the founder of Young Architects Forum Korea and Future City Society. He is envisioning and directing Smart Eco City as the chief city architect of Seogu Incheon Metropolitan City. He graduated from Sungkyunkwan University and Architectural Association School of Architecture in UK.

Eunjoo Bang Head, Information Technology Team, ZDNet Korea

Session 4 Panelist

Journalist at ZDNet Korea since 2018
Joined Jeon-Ja daily newspaper, largest newspaper in Korea focused to ICT, as a reporter in 1991
Experience in ICT industry since 1991 as a reporter
Interested in the smart city, AI, metaverse, blockchain, Big data

Sang Il Kim Director, Dept. of Urban Data and Information, The Seoul Institute

Session 5 Moderator

Session 6 Speaker

The Trip Pattern Changes along COVID-19 Pandemic in Seoul: the Analysis of the Hourly O-D Big Data with Attributes based on KT LTE Signal Data.

Sang Il KIM (Ph.D) is a senior research fellow and the Director of the Department of Urban Data and Information in the Seoul Institute. He has researched on the urban planning and development policy. He also has tried to show the effectiveness and potentials of data-driven approach in his major research area.

Bruno Dercon Senior Hman Settlements Officer, UN-Habitat, Japan

Session 5 Speaker

Bruno Dercon is a senior staff member at the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Fukuoka, Japan. He has supervised and supported UN-Habitat programmes in the region, including China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Timor-Leste. He is specialized in urban development and urban planning. He was trained in architecture, engineering and business, with a MBA specialization in corporate governance and environmental management. He worked first in academia and for the private sector and, since 2005, in the United Nations. Mr. Dercon’s engagements in the past 15 years focused on supporting planning and rehabilitation after complex disasters (Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004, Cyclone Nargis 2008, Pakistan Floods 2010-2011 and Nepal Gorkha Earthquake 2015). He has also supported a variety of programmes on tenure rights, social inclusion, urban planning, basic services delivery, heritage, resilience, climate change and digital innovation. He has been a lead author on urban planning in the “Future of Asia Pacific Cities Report” (UN-ESCAP – UN-Habitat 2019) and on the urban economy in the “Cities and Pandemics” report (UN-Habitat 2021).

Boyeong Hong Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University & Associate Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University

Session 5 Speaker

The Role of Large-scale Mobility Data Analytics for Fighting Neighborhood COVID-19 Gaps

Boyeong Hong is an Associate Research Scholar of the Civic Analytics Program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her research interests focus on how to apply urban informatics to real world problems in urban planning and operations. Boyeong’s current work deals with predictive city analytics using Big Data and Machine Learning techniques to deliver better city services allocation in partnership with various city agencies. Additionally, she is working on the human mobility project associated with the disaster management and the urban resilience planning. Boyeong is currently an affiliated adjunct faculty at Columbia University, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, teaching a course entitled Exploring Urban Data with Machine Learning. Boyeong earned a Ph.D. in Civil and Urban Engineering, majoring in Urban Informatics from New York University, and she holds a M.S. in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Previously, she worked at the Pratt Center for Community Development translating geospatial data into problem solving insight through GIS mapping and analysis. Prior to coming to the United States, She participated in various research projects related to urban planning and data analytics in Seoul, South Korea. She holds a B.Arch from Yonsei University and a Master of City Planning degree from Seoul National University.

Seungyun Kim Research Fellow, Dept. of Urban Society Research, The Seoul Institute

Session 5 Speaker

Inequality in Seoul: Using NHIS Administrative Data

Research Fellow, Dept. of Urban Society Research, Seoul Institute Ph.D in Social Welfare, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

HaeKyung Park Research Fellow, The Seoul Institute

Session 5 Speaker

Extreme Heat Vulnerability of Residential Area in Seoul : Space-Time Series Analysis of Sensible Temperature using S•DoT Big Data

Dr. HaeKyung Park is a research fellow of the Department of Urban Data and Information in the Seoul Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Seoul National University under the title of “Prediction Model of Soil Drought Distribution Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Geospatial Data” in 2020. Her research field is disaster prevention and management, water management, climate change, urban big data, 3D spatial analysis & measurement, spatial & environmental planning, GIS and remote sensing.

Seung Chul Noh Professor, Hanshin University

Session 5 Panelist

Session 6 Panelist

Noh Seung-chul received his Ph.D. in urban planning from Seoul National University and is currently a professor at Hanshin University's Department of Public administration. He has been researching in the field of regional science and has been conducting research on land use, urban development, regional migration, real estate, etc. based on various data and spatial information. Recently, he is conducting research on collecting big data through ICT and social media and predicting the future of cities through machine learning algorithms.

Myounggu Kang Professor, University of Seoul

Session 5 Panelist

Dr. Myounggu Kang holds a Bachelor and a Master degree from Seoul National University, and a Master in City Planning (MCP) and a PhD degree from MIT. He has been appointed Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Seoul since 2006, where, next to his appointment, he is the Director of Smart City Research Center and the editor of the International Journal of Urban Sciences (IJUS). He is also an Executive Director of Korea Planning Association (KPA) and Senior Urban Planner at the World Bank. Former appointments include the position of the Vice President of International Affairs at the University of Seoul, and the Director-General of International Urban Development Collaboration at Seoul Metropolitan Government, among others.

Mi-Ae Jung Research Fellow, Science and Technology Policy Institute

Session 5

Dr. Mi-Ae Jung is Research Fellow at Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), Sejong, South Korea. Dr. Jung received her Ph.D. in Technology Economics from Seoul National University. Her research focuses on science and technology(S&T) policy, innovation networks/ecosystems, and regional innovation.

Sujae Lee CDO and Director for the Big Data Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government

Session 6 Moderator

Mr. Sujae LEE is Chief Data Officer and Director of the Big Data Division, the Seoul Metropolitan Government. He oversees the collection and utilization of big data, establishment of big data governance and Big Data Lake, data based service development utilizing AI and the development of public-private bigdata platform, He is currently focusing on building the systematic data collection and utilization system to support evidence-based policy making and administration. Prior to taking his current role, Mr. Lee served as a Senior Researcher of the Big Data Division at Neighbor System Inc. from 2017 to 2020, Assistant Director of the O2O platform division at Hanmi Hanmi Global Co., Ltd. and CEO at Bricolage Inc. from 2013~2016. He’s also been teaching as a professor for the Department of Computer Software at Sejong Cyber University since 2020.

Suyoung Kang Officer of Big Data Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government

Session 6 Speaker

One Day in Seoul: When, Where, and How Much Do We Travel?

Suyoung Kang is a civil servant at the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s Big Data Division which oversees collecting, storing, and utilizing the city’s data. As a data analyst and urban researcher, she focuses on using data to gain insight into various urban problems and help solve them. Her most recent work is to analyze mobility based on the “Living Mobility” data developed by the city government.

Minyoung Kim Research Fellow, Korea Credit Guarantee Foundation

Session 6 Speaker

A Study on Economic Vulnerability to Infectious Diseases in Commercial Areas

Minyoung Kim is a research fellow with two years of experience in conducting policy researches on industry and small businesses. Minyoung is currently working at the Seoul Credit Guarantee Foundation’s Centre for Small Business Insights. Minyoung specializes in research on small businesses using big data, and is particularly interested in economic phenomena that occur in spatial units such as commercial districts. Minyoung is responsible for supporting the establishment of evidence-based policies in the public sector based on insights from big data. Minyoung wrote her doctoral thesis at Yonsei University with the title of “Rethinking the Job Polarization Hypothesis: The Role of Firms, Institutions, and Geography” and received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Engineering in August 2019. Recent research projects she participated in are “One year after the spread of COVID-19, the Situation in Seoul's alleyways is mixed”, “A Study on Economic Vulnerability to Infectious Diseases in Commercial Areas”, “Study on Establishment of Revitalization Plans of Traditional Markets and Shopping Streets in Seoul”.

Jun Ho Kim Deputy General Manager, Data Biz Team, Shinhan Card

Session 6 Speaker

Creating Values from Combination of Pseudonymized Data

Jun Ho Kim received his B.Ed. in social studies education from Seoul National University and M.Sc. in big data application and security. He has been serving Shinhan Card for 21 years in various departments including marketing, risk management and big data teams and also leading over 150 big data involved projects at public and private sectors for 8 years. He currently is Deputy General Manager at Data Biz Team at Shinhan Card, a big data expert and consultant, and a well-experienced lecturer and advisor at numbers of governmental bodies, public institutions and private companies.

Jisook Yoon Director, Statistics Korea

Session 6 Panelist

All-around data experts with extensive experience in strategy development and execution from data analytics to data service, not only in the private but also in the public sector.

Woncheol Jang Professor, Seoul National University

Session 6 Panelist

Woncheol Jang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and an Affilated Member of A.I Research Institute at Seoul National University. Prof. Jang is currently serving on the editorial boards of Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, JASA/TAS Review and Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. Prof. Jang received a BS in Computer Science and Statistics and MS in Statistics both from Seoul National University in 1991 and 1993, respectively. After a brief stint at Texas A&M University, Prof. Jang went to Carnegie Mellon University to become a Bayesian. Ironically, Prof. Jang didn't do any Bayesian stuff for his Ph.D. thesis but landed back to the Bayesian world, ISDS, at Duke. After spending eight years at Duke and the University of Georgia, Prof. Jang joined the Department of Statistics at Seoul National University in 2012. To him, statistics is a tool for solving scientific problems, and he feels lucky to choose statistics as his professional area, so he still can pursue all his childhood dreams, astronomer, geneticist, and baseball analyst. On the theoretical side, he is interested in the development of a framework for infinite-dimensional data common in many scientific areas. On the application side, his collaborations encompass such topics as astronomy, biology, digital humanity, epidemiology, neuroscience, and politics.

Mokyong Park Chief Manager, Data Business Dept., Korea Credit Bureau

Session 6 Panelist

Mokyong Park, Chief Manager, Data Business Department, Korea Credit Bureau Company

2021 Seoul Big Data Forum Secretariat