Conservation and Coexistence Research Group

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Hyun Seok Yoon, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

About

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Global Change Biology, where I work with Drs. Neil Carter, Kai Zhu, and Thiago Gonçalves-Souza. My research interests center on conservation decision science, ecological modeling, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing quantitative tools to guide biodiversity conservation and natural resource management under global change. Specifically, for my research as a fellow, I am using risk-sensitive portfolio approaches with reinforcement learning models to study how conservation investments can be dynamically allocated across space and time while accounting for ecological and economic uncertainty.

Education

Ph.D.; University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.S.; Cornell University