Dr. Chanwoo Jin

Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Systems

Education

• Ph.D. Geography; University of California, Santa Barbara / San Diego State University (2022)
• M.A. Geography; Seoul National University (2016)
• B.A. Geography; Seoul National University (2014)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• 32-362 (Intro to Cartography)
• 32-365 (Geographic Information Systems)
• 32-462 (Digital Cartography & Geovisualization)
• 32-465 (Intro to Customized GIS)
• 32-565 (Advanced GIS)

Graduate

• 32-602 (Principles of GIS)
• 32-608 (Fundamental of Geostatistics)
• 32-611 (Special Topic in GIScience: Business Location Analytics)
• 32-642 (Internet GIS)
• 32-650 (GIS Database Design)

Academic Interests

• Geographic Information Sciences
• Spatiotemporal big data analytics
• Explainable GeoAI
• Human & urban dynamics

Scholarly Activity

Peer-reviewed Journals

• Jin, C., Park, S., Ha, H. J., Lee, J., Kim, J., Hutchenreuther, J., & Nara, A. (2023). Predicting households’ residential mobility trajectories with geographically localized interpretable model-agnostic explanation (GLIME). International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(12), 2597-2619.
• Fernandez, G., Maione, C., Yang, H., Zaballa, K., Bonnici, N., Carter, J., Spitzberg, B., Jin, C., and Tsou M. H. (2022). Social network analysis of Covid-19 sentiments: 10 metropolitan cities in Italy, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13). 7720. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19137720
• Jin, C., and Murray, A. T. (2021). Exploring Public Open Data: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Restaurant Entrepreneurships in Seoul, Korea, International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research. 8(3). 5.
• Fernandez, G., Maione, C., Zaballa, K., Bonnici, N., Spitzberg, B. H., Carter, J., Yang, H., McKew, J., Bonora, F., Shraddha S. Ghodke, S. S., Jin, C., Ocampo, R., Kepner, W., and Tsou, M. H., (2021) The Geography of Covid-19 Spread in Italy Using Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics, The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23800992.2021.1994813
• Jin, C., Nara, A., Yang, J. A., and Tsou, M. H. (2020). Similarity Measurement on Human Mobility Data with Spatially Weighted Structural Similarity Index (SpSSIM). Transactions in GIS, 24(1), 104-122.
• Jin, C., and Lee, G. (2020). Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics in a housing market using the spatial vector autoregressive lasso. Transactions in GIS, 24(1), 27-43.

Book Chapters

• Nara, A., Machiani. S. G., Luo, N., Ahmadi, A., Robinett, K., Tominaga, K., Park, J., Jin, C., Yang, X., and Tsou M-H. (2021). Learning Dependence Relationships of Evacuation Decision Making Factors from Tweets. In Nara, A., and Tsou, M. H. (Eds), Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics (pp. 113-138). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
• Fernandez, G., Maione, C., Zaballa K., Bonnici, N., Spitzberg, B. H., Carter, J., Yang, H., Jack McKew, J., Bonora, F., Ghodke, S. S., Jin, C., Rachelle De Ocampo, R. D., Kepner, W., Tsou M. H. (2021). Sentiment analysis of social media response and spatial distribution patterns on the COVID-19 outbreak: The case study of Italy. In Empowering Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics (pp. 167-184). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

Conference Paper 

• Embury, J., Nara, A., & Jin, C. (2022). Spatially weighted structural similarity index: a multiscale comparison tool for diverse sources of mobility data. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility (pp. 19-22).
• Jin, C., and Thompson, C. A. (2018). Identifying geographic disparities in breast cancer mortality in California. In APHA's 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo (Nov. 10-Nov. 14). American Public Health Association.