Byung Min Soon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Chungnam National University (CNU), Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2017. Prior to joining CNU, he served as a Research Associate at the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI-MU) from 2017 to 2019 and as a Research Fellow at the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) from 2019 to 2020.

His foundational research centers on international agricultural trade, commodity price analysis, and quantitative agricultural policy modeling. More recently, his research agenda has expanded into interdisciplinary convergence, focusing on AI- and satellite remote sensing-based crop yield forecasting, food security analytics, and agri-food value-added estimation.

Research Interests: International Agricultural Trade, Commodity Price Analysis, Quantitative Policy Modeling, AI & Remote Sensing Convergence for Food Security, Agri-Food Statistics 

Contact: soonbm@cnu.ac.kr