About

Hi, I’m Su!

You can spell it Su or Sue, I don’t mind either way.

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Geography department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before this, I was a research associate in the Geographic Information Science and Technology group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before that, I was “master”-ing urban spatial analytics at the University of Pennsylvania. And even before that, I was studying operations research and management science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Geographic information science, network science, spatial data science, … those are my things. But I enjoy a lot of other things too, like surfing, paddling (outrigger canoe and dragonboat), Olympic weightlifting, Brazilian jiu jitsu and visiting breweries with my dog Flower. I strongly believe in having an identity outside of work, but thankfully I am passionate about that as well.

Purpose of this website

I created this website to help document my PhD experience and daylight past and current projects. There are tabs for academic and passion projects. Academic projects include those produced from a university course or through research, while passion projects are those I did in my free time. In the future, I hope to add a tab for my diversity and inclusion work, which has become an increasingly important part of my departmental and community service.

Contact me

Please feel free to contact me with any comments, questions or ideas for collaboration at one of the links below.