SONG Lab
Spatial cOmputation and iNtegrated modellinG Lab
Lab overview
People
We are starting as a small team. Admission cycle for Spring 2025 ended. Thank you for your interest!
Our team is enthused in spatial and spatiotemporal analysis of health outcomes, air pollution modeling, and open geospatial data science. The email address of the team lead is geoissong [at] snu [dot] ac [dot] kr.
​
International applicants are encouraged to check the duration of processing official documents for your application beforehand. SNU Geography graduate admission is usually announced in April and October every year.
Projects
It is our solid principle to let you choose the topic of your thesis or dissertation. My recommendation is to have enough time to discuss potential topics that you are interested in and I could advise on. Please contact the team lead before you submit a graduate application to SNU Geography to get to know more about you and your interests that align with the team for your academic success, productivity, and career development. Per SNU Geography graduate admission bylaws, Ph.D. applicants should consult a potential supervisor before submitting an application. I strongly encourage you to act promptly (e.g., send an email and knock the door of the team lead in person) if you are interested.
​
Potential fields we could work with include, but are not limited to, spatiotemporal analysis, health geography, geocomputation, spatial statistics, geographic applications of high-performance/cloud computing, and others (please inquire).
Facilities
A high-performance workstation equipped with 48-thread CPU, dual A6000 GPUs and high memory capacity (768GB) is incoming in December 2024! This device will be shared with all team members via SNU on-campus network.
​
You might get your own desk in one of the lab spaces in SNU Department of Geography depending on your registration type (i.e., full-time).
​
Of course, all lab members will get access to top-notch physical and virtual research environment in SNU.
Looking ahead with your feet on the ground
We will peruse SONG lab guide in the first week of your program, where helpful information for your faster adaptation to the graduate life and our shared code for the collaborative and effective teaching-learning environment with good practices. As the team lead, I encourage everyone to aim as high as possible, but at the same time I ask you start from problems you could define it in a succinct sentence and address it with a concrete methodology.