Dr. Junghwan Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at CGA. 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 GIScience methods, geoprivacy, and geoethics.

His works have been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Journal of Transport Geography, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Environmental Research, and Transactions in GIS.

He has received many prestigious awards, including the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Council Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Peter Gould Student Paper Award from the AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, John Odland Student Paper Award from the AAG Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group (First Prize), Student Research Presentation Award from the Race/Ethnicity/Place Conference (First Prize), American Planning Association (APA) Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Award (Third Prize) and APA National Smart Cities Student Design Competition Winner (in Team).