Junghwan Kim Email and Phone Number

Dr. Junghwan Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech and director of Smart Cities for Good, a research group that aims to solve urban social and environmental challenges through smart city technologies. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in 2021 in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also holds a B.S. in Urban Planning and Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Yonsei University (2016) in South Korea and a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) from the UIUC (2018). His research interests include human mobility (e.g., travel behavior and accessibility), environmental health, the application of geospatial data science methods (e.g., GeoAI, Generative AI), and geospatial data ethics.