Employment 

▪2025     Assistant Professor in Department of Landscape Architecture, Dong-A University, College of Design and Environment, Busan, Republic of Korea.

▪2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.  (Advisor: Dr. Lucy Hutyra)

Education

▪2023     Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Youngryel Ryu)

▪2016        MS Department of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Youngryel Ryu)

▪2013      BS Department of Landscape Architecture, Donga University, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Dr. Yeongjo Kang)

Publications

[7] Wan, L., Ryu, Y.*, Dechant, B., Hwang, Y., Feng, H., Kang, Y., Jeong, S., Lee, J., Choi, C., Bae, J. (2024) Correcting confounding canopy structure, biochemistry and soil background effects improves leaf area index estimates across diverse ecosystems from Sentinel-2 imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 309, 114224 [HTML] 

[6] Hwang, Y., Kim, J., Ryu, Y. (2023). Canopy structural changes explain reductions in canopy-level solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence in Prunus yedoensis seedlings under a drought stress condition. Remote Sensing of Environment, 296, 113733 [HTML]

[5] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.*, Qu, S. (2022). Expanding vegetated areas by human activities and strengthening vegetation growth concurrently explain the greening of Seoul. Landscape and Urban Planning. 227, 104518 [HTML]

[4] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y.*, Huang, Y., Kim, J., Iwata, H., Kang, M.* (2020) Comprehensive assessments of carbon dynamics in an intermittently-irrigated rice paddy. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 285-286, 107933  [HTML]

[3] Kim, J., Ryu, Y., Jiang, C., Hwang, Y. (2019) Continuous observation of vegetation canopy dynamics using an integrated low-cost, near-surface remote sensing system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 264, 164-177 [HTML]

[2] Yang, K., Ryu, Y., Dechant, B., Berry, J.A., Hwang, Y., Jiang, C., Kang, M., Kim, J., Kimm, H., Kornfeld, A., Yang, X. (2018). Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 216, 658-673  [HTML]

[1] Hwang, Y., Ryu, Y., Kimm, H., Jiang, C., Lang, M., Macfarlane, C., Sonnentag, O. (2016) Correction for light scattering combined with sub-pixel classification improves estimation of gap fraction from digital cover photography. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 222, 32-44 [HTML]