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Jinha Jung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 W. Taylor St, MC 673
Chicago, IL 60612
Email: jinha@uic.edu
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2011
M.S., Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2005
B.S., Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2003
Jinha Jung is one of two postdoctoral researches working on the National Science Foundation Urban Long-Term Research Areas Exploratory Research (ULTRA-Ex) grant titled “Connecting the Social and Ecological Sciences with Planners, Managers, and the Public: Building a Broad Foundation for the Chicago Region ULTRA”. Dr. David Wise of IESP and Biological Sciences is the Principal Investigator of this grant at UIC. Jinha is working with the Chicago Wilderness science team, a biodiversity alliance of over 250 organizations in the metropolitan Chicago area, from southern Wisconsin through northern Illinois and Indiana into southwest Michigan. The Chicago Wilderness science team includes researchers from a wide range of key Chicago-area universities and research organizations. Jinha is researching options for a multi-faceted Chicago ULTRA-Hub. The Hub will include an interactive web-based platform for managing data, communicating research findings to planners and the public, and collaborating and interacting with scientists and practitioners. The ULTRA Hub will also be an umbrella center for urban ecosystem research and policy, and will partner with regional education and outreach programs. A pilot “proof-of-concept” version will be launched. Also, through a series of outreach and education activities, Jinha is assisting in the development of the integrated theoretical and empirical framework for a long-term socio-ecological research program in the Chicago metropolitan region. Click here for more information about this project.
Jinha holds B.S and M.S degrees in Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering from Seoul National University and a Ph.D in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. While pursuing his doctorate at Purdue, Jinha was a Research Assistant at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, where he developed a new framework to integrate full waveform LIDAR and hyperspectral data for forest structure characterization. He also participated in Computational Science and Engineering interdisciplinary program during doctoral studies and developed various parallel algorithms for high performance computing environments to analyze LIDAR waveform data. Jinha was also a Research Assistant at Purdue Terrestrial Observatory where he administered the PTO clusters and developed parallel algorithms to process near real time remote sensing data received from receiving stations. He was also in charge of developing and maintaining the IndianaView program which is a Web-based remote sensing data distribution system.
Jinha also has broad-based teaching experience in various environments. He served as a teaching assistant both in graduate level (Remote Sensing) and undergraduate level (Geographic Information System) classes. He also participated in a Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 program where he taught local middle school (Tecumseh Jr. Hight School in Lafayette, Indiana) students in Science classes, and taught a Linux server administration class in the Yeon-Hap computer school.