Students
- Xia Feng
- Joanna Ganning
- Tim Green
- Soo Jung Ha
- Jae Hong Kim
- Jose De Leon
- Jee-Sun Lee
- Jaewon Lim
- Marcelo Lufin
- Seryoung Park
- Saket Sarraf
- Tubagus Furqon Sofhani
- Carlos Eduardo Silva
- Paksi Walandouw
- Drake Warren
- Yu Xiao
Xia Feng
PhD Student |
Xia is a Ph.D student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Master’s degree in Economics from South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China. Before she came to the U. S., she was an Assistant Professor in Guangdong Institute of Technology and Management. Her areas of interest lie in regional growth modeling and policies, spatial econometric and exploratory data analysis in regional economics and its related fields, and spatial income convergence in China. Currently she is working on her thesis which is evaluating the spatial economic impacts from sports stadiums and arenas on the property values in the surrounding areas. |
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Joanna Ganning
PhD Student |
Joanna P. Ganning is a PhD student in Regional Planning. After growing up in West Virginia, Joanna went to Penn State, where she earned a BS in Environmental Resource Management in 2003. During her undergraduate years Joanna had the opportunity to work for the National Park Service at the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, and later at the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, DC. These experiences, along with her studies, interested her in the field of planning. She matriculated to Virginia Tech, where she earned a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in economic development. During her two years at VT, Joanna worked for the Center for Housing Research. Following from her background and work at Virginia Tech, her current research focuses on rural economic development. |
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Tim Green
PhD Student |
Tim Green grew up near San Francisco, California. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1998 with a major in music and a minor in ecology. Before coming to the University of Illinois, he worked as a conservation analyst doing GIS work at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC. His research interests include municipal broadband efforts and the effects of disasters on small businesses. |
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Soo Jung Ha
PhD Student |
Soo Jung Ha started the PhD program in the University of Illinois in Spring 2003. She has been working on updating REIM (Regional Econometric Input-Output Model) and reconstructing of the Chicago model to continuous time versions as a Research Assistant in REAL. Her researches focus on investigating the integrated regional economic model to examine the spatial structural difference and the spatial interdependence of regional economic structure through transport network or cost change. Soo Jung finished her MS in Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea in 2000 with her thesis, “An Analysis of Structural Change of Interregional Development Inequity”. And she also worked as an assistant research fellow in KRIHS (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement) for two years. During her free time, she loves playing tennis, traveling and watching the art performance with her friends. |
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Jae Hong Kim
Masters Student |
Jae Hong Kim joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Fall 2004. He has developed I-O based econometric models, called “Economic Driver Model”, for the LEAM (Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Modeling) laboratory. His master study in planning will be completed in this May. Then, he is going to enroll into the PhD program at this university.
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Jose De Leon
Master's Student |
Jose De Leon earned his BA (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 2005. He joined the University
of Illinois and REAL in Summer 2005. His main research interest is the impact of potential climate change in socioeconomic sectors such as
transportation, housing, tourism, migration, and so on, especially on countries within the Caribbean Region. He also is interest in topics such
as the improvement of urban transportation systems and the creation of vulnerability indexes of natural disasters (related to climate change) for
socioeconomic sectors. |
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Jee-Sun Len
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PhD Student |
Jee-Sun Lee joined the University of Illinois and REAL in Fall 2001. Her main interests lie in commodity flows
between regions and its influence on regional economic systems. She worked as a member of the project to investigate
the regional economic loss of transportation network destruction caused by earthquakes. She is currently working on
the development of a multiregional input-output model to detect regional economic interdependence based on the
interregional trade within a multi-region system. |
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Jaewon Lim
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Ph. D. Candidate |
Jaewon Lim first joined the department of Urban & Regional Planning in University of Illinois as a masters student in 1999. He earned a B.A. in engineering in the Department of Urban Planning & Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea in 1998. After his undergraduate studies, he worked for Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements as a research scientist in GIS center. For his masters degree, he mainly focused on GIS and urban development projects and wrote a thesis titled “Public-Private Partnership in New Town Development” with case studies of Korean new town development projects in early 1990s.
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Marcelo Lufin
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Ph. D. Candidate |
Marcelo arrived to REAL in fall 2003. He is currently working on his dissertation about structural community representations as complex systems, using several municipalities in Chile as case of study. Marcelo is pursuing his Ph. D degree in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC.
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Seryoung Park
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PhD Student |
Seryoung Park joined the University of Illinois in 2002 and REAL in 2004. He is working on CGE modeling and computation methods. Currently, he is building the Chicago CGE model to evaluate the impact of retirement migration and aging population on the regional economy. This model has many novel features in its treatment of regional migration, demand structure, and heterogeneity. He is also familiar with computational languages, like FORTRAN90, MATLAB.
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Saket Sarraf
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PhD Student |
Saket Sarraf is a PhD candidate in Regional Science at the
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He holds a Masters
degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UIUC and a
Bachelors degree in architecture from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has worked as an architect
for two years before coming to Illinois. |
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Tubagus Furqon Sofhani
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Tubagus Furqon Sofhani joined the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois and REAL in 2003. His research focuses on the shift of planning paradigms in transitional democratic countries, stimulated by the social movement of non-government organizations. Using diffusion of innovation and social learning theory, he highlights how groups of planners initiated the change of planning forms from planning as societal guidance to planning as social transformation.
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Carlos Eduardo Silva
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PhD Student |
I am Brazilian. Yes, I like soccer and carnival. And I agree: Brazilian women are the most beautiful in the world. Corruption and violence? They are everywhere, look around!
But you may know something else about my country. It is an unfair society: the country's wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the shameful Brazilian income distribution indexes show the disparity not only among families but also among our regions. This is my research motivation.
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Paksi Walandouw
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PhD Student |
Paksi Walandouw joined the University of Illinois and REAL in the spring of 2005. He is working with regional models, especially the models that characterize the effect of spatial interaction to the economic and demographic activities. Previously, he was working with regional income convergence models and public investment impacts on economics and demographic activities.
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Drake Warren
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PhD Student |
Drake Warren is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Consumer Economics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a research assistant in the Regional Economics and Public Policy (REAP) group. His research interests include the application and development of GIS, spatial data analysis, and econometric methods to regional and urban economics and spatial public policy evaluation. He holds an MA from Northwestern University and a BA from Rice University. |
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Yu Xiao
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PhD Student |
Yu is a doctoral student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She got her bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning with a minor in Electronic Business from Beijing University in China and a masters’ degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of interest are regional economic development and policies, regional science, and econometric modeling. She is particularly interested in how regions evolve and adjust while facing uncertainties. Before joining REAP, she worked with Land use Evolution & impact Assessment Model (LEAM) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, she worked on developing an economic model that drives land use evolution and fiscal impact models that assess the fiscal impact of land use change. |
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Mark Birkin