Department: Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business
Title: Assistant Professor
Dr. Soyoung Jeon joined the Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business Department at New Mexico State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2020. Dr. Jeon received her Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. Following this, she received post-doctoral training in Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She then continued her career at Border Biomedical Research Center at the University of Texas at El Paso as a Research Statistician and supported numerous statistical consulting projects. Dr. Jeon has strong interests in interdisciplinary research, especially on developing statistical methods for applications to business, agriculture, biology, and health-related field. Her expertise is environmental statistics, extreme value analysis, and Spatio-temporal modeling.
Fax: 575.646.1915
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in Statistics and Operations Research, May 2012
Seoul National University
M.S. in Statistics, February 2007
B.S. in Statistics, February 2005
Herrera-Molina, E., T.E. Gill, G. Ibarra-Mejia, S. Jeon. (2021). Associations between
Dust Exposure and Hospitalizations in El Paso, Texas, USA. Atmosphere. 12(11):1413.
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111413
Aguilera, J., S. Jeon, M. Chavez, G. Ibarra-Mejia, J. Ferreira-Pinto, L. D. Whigham
and W.-W. Li. (2021). Land-Use Regression of Long-Term Transportation Data on
Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Low-Income Communities. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211021853
Ibarra-Mejia, G., M. Lusk, and S. Jeon. (2021). Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
among Latinx University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Development Issues. 43(1), 55–67.
Thabet, A. M., C. Gerzina, F. Sala, S. Jeon, G. Lovisetti, A. Abdelgawad, T. A. DeCoster and W. Azzam. (2021). Outcomes and Complications With Treatment of Open
Tibial Plafond Fractures With Circular External Fixator. Foot & Ankle International.
42(6), 723–733. PMID: 33559484
Jeon, S., J. Aguilera, L. D. Whigham and W.-W. Li. “Association of Traffic and ReReport lated Air Pollutants on Cardiorespiratory Risk Factors From Low-Income Populations
in El Paso, TX.” Prepared for Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CAR-TEEH) USDOT University Transportation Center.
February 1, 2021. Available at https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56858
Projects NMSU COB Fulton Research Mini-grant
Health Data Analytics and Training: Evaluating urine arsenic levels and developing associations of urine arsenic with human papillomavirus (HPV) risk
UTC CAR-TEEH 69A3551747128 PI
Association of traffic and related air pollutants on cardiorespiratory risk factors from
low-income populations in El Paso, TX
Co-PI: W-W. Li, J. Aguilera, L. Whigham
NIH U01 AI129783-01A1
New chemotherapy regimens and biomarkers for Chagas disease
PI: I. Almeida
UTC CAR-TEEH 69A3551747128
Healthy living and traffic-related air pollution in an underserved community
PI: W-W. Li