Geography’s GeoTrans Lab welcomes two new full time Research Associate Specialists, Dr. Seo Youn Yoon and Dr. Ting Lei. Seo Youn graduated in Fall 2010 with a PhD in Geography and specializes in advanced quantitative methods in transportation modeling and simulation. During the course of obtaining her PhD, she received a variety of fellowships and scholarships, including an Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship in 2008 and the 2009-10 Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship. At GeoTrans, Seo Youn will be extending and refining her dissertation research to a Mega region, working on a large simulation model for Southern California, and developing new methods for discrete choice models and analysis of data, using models with latent variables.
Ting Lei graduated in Fall 2010 with a PhD in Geography and also received scholarships from several entities. He specializes in location analysis and modeling and has extended this science in many directions, including the development, with Professor Rick Church, of methods for transit accessibility computation. At GeoTrans, Ting will be developing new geocomputational methods and working on the Southern California large simulation model with Seo Youn.
GeoTrans, “The Transportation Portal @ UC Santa Barbara,” was created in mid-2007 by Professor Kostas Goulias, and the GeoTrans Lab found a physical location in early 2008 (3625 Ellison Hall). GeoTrans lays claim to some major accomplishments, including the creation of a PhD Emphasis in Transportation, the receipt of numerous Graduate Fellowship Awards and prestigious national awards by its grad students, presentations made (and often awarded) at University of California Transportation Center conferences and major international travel conferences, and being awarded numerous and lucrative grants towards a wide range of research projects. For more, see the For more, see the GeoTrans web site.
Editor’s note: Thanks to Kostas for providing most of the material for this posting.
