Bio
I’m a Research Associate at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) at the University of Glasgow, working on children’s physical activity on the first half of my time and on simulating traffic flow and the impact of low emission zones in Scotland on the other half.
I am a quantitative geographer interested in environmental hazards, urban air quality, GIScience, agent-based modelling (ABM), and open-source research. I completed my Ph.D at the University of Cambridge where my project looked at how air pollution and urbanisation can affect pedestrian’s exposure and the health consequences followed by the cumulative exposure using ABM. Before joining SPHSU, I worked on a project that unraveled the benefits of using crowdsourcing to help improve our understanding of positional services for under-represented groups e.g. gender, age, ethnicity.
On this site I keep a list of my publications, presentations, and models, as well as a technical blog.
Selected Projects
Publications
How simulation techniques can be used to measure population exposure to high levels of PM2.5: A case study of London. Hyesop Shin, Air Quality News (Paywall for full version), and the short version published in Royal Geographical Society
Simulating the Glasgow Low Emission Zone. Presented in the European Social Simulation Conference. Published version coming soon
TRAPSim: An agent-based model to estimate personal exposure to non-exhaust road emissions in central Seoul (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101894
R Packages
scottishdata | Geospatial and Population Data related to Scotland | To arrive in 2024