Personal Data [Top]

Nationality: Korean Citizen Cell Phone: (850) 728 5810

Education [Top]

Ph.D. Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2010 M.A., Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 2006 M.S., Regional Science, KonKuk University, Seoul, Korea, 2000 B.S., Geography, KonKuk University, Seoul, Korea, 1998

Professional Experience [Top]

1. Research Assistant – Geography Department, Florida State University                    Aug. 2006 – Aug. 2010    For the integration of Remote Sensing and GIS project 2. Research Assistant – Economic Forecasting Project, Economy department              Sep. 2005 – Mar. 2006  University of California, Santa Barbara – Data Organization, Map Design 3. GIS intern – Resource Management Agency, Ventura County Government Center    Jan. 2006 – Mar. 2006 – Database design, Map products, – Maintaining the Ventura County General Plan and Zoning Ordinance and so on 4. Research Assistant – University of California, Santa Barbara                                 Jan.  2005 – Mar. 2005     For the transportation research project – Data collection, Data organization, Map Design 5. Research Assistant – University of California, Santa Barbara                                 Sep. 2004 – Dec. 2004                      For the GIS class (176B in Geography Department) – Wrote lab sessions – Experimented lab sessions 6. Student Assistant – ESRI user conference                                                        Aug. 2004 – Aug. 2004    7. Assistant, Jongro Academy, Seoul                                                                    Dec. 2001 – Feb. 2002 – Students Management – Made reports 8. Lead researcher, Prolangs Co., Ltd. Seoul                                                             Feb. 2000 – Jul. 2001 – Completed team project for customers – Designed Survey Research – Statistical Analysis – Made reports of analysis results 9. Editor, Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET),  Nov. 1999 – Jan. 2000 Seoul, Korea.                                                10. Research Assistant – KonKuk University, Seoul, Korea                                        Mar. 1999 – Dec. 1999       For Urban sustainable development project

Teaching Experience. [Top]

1. Teaching Associate – Geography Department, Florida State University                      Jan. 2009 –Aug. 2010     For Multimedia Geo-visualization => class website 2. Teaching Assistant – Geography Department, Florida State University                     Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2008    For Advanced Remote Sensing and Geo-visualization Classes 3. Supervised Student Teacher (Geography and sociology),                                                         Apr. 1997     KyungHae Women High School, KyungNam, Korea.                                                4. Teaching Assistant, Geography Department, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea,         Sep. 1998 - Jun. 1999 Assistant Teacher of Human Geography for Undergraduate Students Assistant Teacher of Regional Analysis & Lab. for Undergraduate Students 5. Lecturer for a learning institute, Seoul, Korea.                                                        Dec.1997 - Feb. 1998

Publications and Presentations [Top]

1. Sunhui Sim, 2008, Landscape Pattern Analysis in the Seoul Metropolitan Region: linking census and remote sensed imagery, US-IALE conference, Madison, WI. 2. Sunhui Sim, 2008, Spatio-temporal dynamics in Seoul Metropolitan Area: Linking urban growth theory into environmental impacts, AAG conference, Boston, MA. 3. Sunhui Sim, 2007, Spatio-temporal dynamics in Seoul Metropolitan Region: Linking remote sensing into urban theory, Urban remote sensing conference, Paris, France. 4. Sunhui Sim, 2007, Spatio-temporal dynamics in Seoul Metropolitan Area: Linking Bayesian approach into land use/cover change, AAG conference, San Francisco, California. 5. Sunhui Sim and Keith Clarke, 2005, Dasymetric Mapping with Object-oriented Classification and GIS, 2005 IGARSS conference, Seoul Korea 6. Sunhui Sim, 2005, Urban land use mapping using object-oriented classification method, 2005 AAG conference, Denver Colorado. 7. Sunhui Sim, 2005, A proposed method for disaggregating census data using object-oriented image classification and GIS, 2005 Urban remote sensing conference, Tempe Arizona. 8. Sunhui Sim, 2004, Land use mapping of Santa Barbara city, UCSB summer mentoring program. 9. Sunhui Sim, 2000, The Characteristics of Secondary Cities in the Seoul Metropolitan Region, KonKuk University Thesis. 10. Sunhui Sim, Changes in Ski Resort Surroundings: An Application of Life Cycle Model, Asia Pacific Tourism Organization, The 1998 Tanyang International Tourism Conference, Graduate Program Papers.

Achievements and Training [Top]G

Awarded certificate of Teaching English for Speakers of Other languages, Florida State University, 2008 Awarded certificate of GIS programming course, Ministry of Information and Communication, 2003 Awarded certificate of Data Mining neural network Analysis, Korea SPSS, 2000 Awarded certificate of introduction of SAS, Korea SAS software, 2000 Awarded certificate of participation in Introduction to S-PLUS, CADLNAD, INC, 1999 Awarded Teaching certificate, The education Ministry, 1998 Awarded certificate of participation in a non-credit English program, San Diego State University, 1997 Awarded certificate of participation in PC ARC/INFO course, CADLNAD, INC, 1996

Fellowships and Funds [Top]

1. The Dissertation Research Grant from Florida State University, Oct. 2008 – Jun. 2009 2. Student Assistantship, The ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2008  3. The travel scholarship, The Congress of Graduate Students (COGS), Florida State University Apr. 2008 4. The travel scholarship, Geography department, Florida State University Apr. 2007 5. The travel scholarship, Geography department, University of California Santa Barbara Jul. 2005 – Aug. 2005 6. Student illustrated paper competition, Sponsored by the cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing specialty groups, 2005 AAG conference, Denver Colorado. Apr. 2005 7. Grad-USAP Fellowship for Fall 2005, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 8. Grad-USAP Fellowship for Fall 2004 ~Spring 2005 University of California Santa Barbara, CA 9. Student Assistantship, The annual ESRI user conference, San Diego, CA, 2004

Skills [Top]

WINDOWS OFFICE (WORD, EXCEL, and POWER POINT) OPERATING SYSTEMS (DOS, WINDOWS 95, 98, NT, XP, and UNIX) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (Visual Basic, C, GIS Programming Languages, DreamWeaver, Java, and ASP) DATABASE SYSTEM (ORACLE, SQL) STATISTICAL SKILL (SPSS, MatLab, R, WinBUGS) GIS SOFTWARE (ARC/INFO, ARE/VIEW, ARCSDE, ARCIMS, ArcObjects, MapObjects, ArcPad, ArcPad Application Builder, Map/Info, and TransCAD) REMOTE SENSING SOFTWARE (e-Cognition, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, ER Mapper, and IDRISI) LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS (FRAGSTATS)

Memberships [Top]

The member of The Korean Geographical Society The member of The Korean Urban Geographical Society The member of The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping The member of The Association of American Geographers The member of The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing The member of United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology