Funded Projects

Ongoing

• The Capacity-Building Project for Primary Healthcare Workforce to Improve Maternal and Child Oral Health in Kilifi County, Kenya ($5,000; 2025 - 2026)
  • Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
  • PI: Hyewon Lee, Seoul National University
  • Role: GIS specialist (field study in Kenya, January 2026, planned)

• What Is the Relationship Between Adolescent Neighborhood Environments and Long-Run Labor Market Outcomes for Children with Disabilities? ($6,000; 2024 - 2025)
  • Social Security Administration (SSA)’s Retirement and Disability Research Consortium
  • PI: Pyung Kim

• Spatial Distribution of Natural Radiation in Jeonnam Province ($160,000; 2024 - 2025)
  • Role: Research assistant (research design, data analysis, and GIS mapping)
  • Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Research of Korea
  • Yeol Rho (PI at Chonnam National Univ.), and Dohyeong Kim (co-PI at UTD)

• Geospatial Community Mapping to Assess Social and Environmental Barriers and Facilitators for Burn Survivors ($2,320,495; 2022 - 2027)
  • Role: Research assistant (research design, data analysis, GIS mapping, and writing)
  • Funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
  • Karen Kowalske (PI at UTSW Medical Center), Dohyeong Kim and Richard Scotch (co-PIs at UTD)

Completed

• Spatial Distribution of Natural Radiation in Jeonbuk Province ($160,000; 2023 - 2024)
  • Role: Research assistant (research design, data analysis, and GIS mapping)
  • Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Research of Korea
  • Yeol Rho (PI at Chonnam National Univ.), and Dohyeong Kim (co-PI at UTD)

• A Study on International Standards of Software Safety Assessment and Legal Arrangement of Domestic and Foreign Countries (2020)

  • Role: Research assistant (data collection and interview)
  • Funded by Software Policy & Research Institute in Korea
  • Hyunsuk Lee (PI at Korea Institute of Public Administration)

• An Analysis of the Local Government Social Welfare Budget (2018)

  • Role: Research assistant (data collection and cleaning)
  • Funded by Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare
  • Jaejin Yang (PI at Yonsei University)

• Analysis of national distrust structure of nuclear safety regulations and development of risk communication strategies for recovering trust (2016)

  • Role: Research assistant (data collection and analysis)
  • Funded by Korea Foundation of Nuclear Safety
  • Seoyong Kim (PI at Ajou University)

• Track and analyze the performance of technological development project for original research (2015)

  • Role: Research assistant (data collection and cleaning)
  • Funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea
  • Seoyong Kim (PI at Ajou University)