Eun Sug Park

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Eun Sug Park is an American statistician who works as a senior research scientist in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She is known for her research on the statistics of traffic safety, and on whether public transportation reduces air pollution, [1] as well as for her book on traffic simulation.

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Education and career

Park earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Seoul National University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. She completed a doctorate in statistics at Texas A&M University in 1997. [2] Her dissertation, Multivariate Receptor Modeling from a Statistical Science Viewpoint, was supervised by Clifford Spiegelman. [3] She became a member of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute in 2001. [2]

Book

With Clifford Spiegelman and Laurence R. Rilett, Park is a co-author of the book Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation (CRC Press, 2016). [4]

Recognition

Park won the Patricia F. Waller Award of the Transportation Research Board in 2009, for her work with Kay Fitzpatrick on pedestrian safety, [5] and the D. Grant Mickle Award of the TRB in 2011 for her work with Fitzpatrick, Susan Chrysler, and Vichika Iragavarapu on the visibility of crosswalk indicators. [6]

In 2019 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [7] She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. [8]

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References

  1. Binkovitz, Leah (October 15, 2018), "Did Houston's Light Rail Reduce Traffic Pollution?", Urban Edge, Rice University, Kinder Institute for Urban Research
  2. 1 2 Short biography: Eun Sug Park, Ph.D., Texas A&M Transportation Institute, April 14, 2011, retrieved 2019-05-13
  3. Eun Sug Park at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Banks, David L. (August 2012), "Review of Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation", The American Statistician, 66 (3): 205–206, JSTOR   23339787
  5. Patricia F. Waller Award, Transportation Research Board , retrieved 2019-05-12
  6. D. Grant Mickle Award, Transportation Research Board , retrieved 2019-05-12
  7. ASA Fellow Announcement (PDF), American Statistical Association, retrieved 2019-05-12
  8. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2019-05-14, retrieved 2019-05-12