Education

• 2025.09 - present

  • Ph.D

  • Kyungpook National University

  • Department of statistics

  • Advisor: Hyojung Lee

• 2024.03 - 2025.08

  • Master

  • Kyungpook National University

  • Department of statistics

  • Advisor: Hyojung Lee

• 2018.03 - 2024.02

  •  B.S.

  • Kyungpook National University

  • Department of statistics

Research interest

• Spatiotemporal modeling for infectious disease (particularly in livestock)

  • Mathematical modeling

  • Statistical modeling

• Statistical analysis

Language

• Korean, English, Japanese

Skills

• R, python, matlab

Grant

• 한국연구재단 석사과정생연구장려금지원사업 (2024.09 - 2025.08)

  • Grant name: 통계적 방법을 이용한 감염병 공간 전파 수리 모델 개발

  • Grant number: RS-2024-00466140

Intership

• IBS BIMAG Winter Intership (2024.01)

  • Institude for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea

• Student Researcher in Department of Statistics (2022.5 - 2023.8)

  • Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

Experience

• PI for 대학원생 융복합 연구공동체 (2025.06 - 2026.01)

  • Title: Analysis of the risk infection for the malaria cases by estimating the habitat suitability of mosquitoes 

  • Period: 2025.06 - 2026.01

• PI for 한국연구재단 석사과정생연구장려금지원사업 (2025.06 - 2026.01)

  • Title: 통계적 방법을 이용한 감염병 공간 전파 수리 모델 개발

  • Period: 2024.09 - 2025.08

  • Grant number: RS-2024-00466140

Publications

• Published

2026

• • (Top 19%) Changdae Son, Yongin Choi, and Hyojung Lee, Modeling the Spatiotemporal Spread and Control of African Swine Fever in the Republic of Korea using a Patch-Based Stochastic Framework, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.

2025

• • (Top 14%) Yeonsu Lee, Pamela Kim N. Salonga, Changdae Son, Geunsoo Jang, DaeHyup Koh, Jong-Hoon Kim, Hyojung Lee, Effective strategies for Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Delivery: Health and Economic Insights from the 2015 Kampala Outbreak, PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease. 

2024

• • (Top 10%) Kyeong Tae Ko, Janghun Oh, Changdae Son, Yongin Choi, and Hyojung Lee, Identifying the risk clusters for African Swine Fever in Korea via statistical analysis, Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

  • (Top 17%) Geunsoo Jang, Jihyeon Kim, Yeonsu Lee, Changdae Son, Kyeong Tae Ko, and Hyojung Lee, Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 variants and vaccination on the time-varying reproduction number: Statistical methods, Frontiers in Public Health.

• Submitted

  • Changdae Son, Hyosun Lee, Sunmi Lee, Hyojung Lee. COVID-19 Outbreaks, Mobility Patterns, and the Impact of Social Distancing: A Study of South Korea’s Pandemic Response.

  • Changdae Son, Jiseung Jeon, Kwang Shik Choi, and Hyojung Lee. Identifying Primary Malaria Vector Species using Habitat Suitability in South Korea.

  • Yoonah Kang, Yeonsu Lee, Changdae Son, Wasim Abbas, Jaehoon Kim, Yongin Choi, and Hyojung Lee. Quantifying Variant-Specific Transmissibility and Forecasting Recurrent Summer COVID-19 Outbreaks: An Age-Structured Modeling Study in Korea.

Conference presentation

2026

• (Poster) 2026 Annual Meeting of Korean Society for Mathematical Biology

  • Title: Analysis of the relationship between habitat suitability of malaria vector mosquitoes and malaria cases

• (Poster) 2026 Korean Statistical Society Summer Conference

  • Title: A Data Scaling Analysis for Time Series Modeling with  Influenza Data

• (Poster) ECMTB 2026

  • Title: Reconstructing Influenza Incidence from Sentinel Surveillance Data Using a Latent INGARCH Model

2025

• (Oral) 2025 KOSHIS Spring meeting

  • Title: Stochastic modeling approach to estimate regional risk of African Swine Fever

• (Poster) ACMB-JSMB 2025

  • Title: Analysis of African Swine Fever Transmission Dynamics through a Multi – Patch Modelling Approach Reflecting Wild Boar Behavior

• (Oral) The 2025 Fall Conference of the Korean Data and Information Science Society 

  • Title: Spatial Risk Assessment of African Swine Fever Using a Multi - Patch Model

• (Poster) 2025 KAGIS Fall Conference & IAG'i International Symposium 

  • Title: Spatial Transmission Analysis of African Swine Fever Using a Multi – Patch Model

• (Poster) 2025 The Korean Statistical Society Winter Conference 

  • Title: Estimating population-level influenza incidence from sentinel surveillance data using an INGARCH model

2024

• (Poster) KSIAM 2024 Annual Meeting

  • Title: Modeling the Transmission Spread of African Swine Fever through Habitat Suitability Index

2023

• (Poster) The 8th CIJK Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

  • Title: Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 variants and vaccination on the effective reproduction number: Statistical methods

• (Poster) 2023 Youngnam Mathematical Society Annual Meeting

  • Title: New indicator accounting for the impact of COVID-19 variants and vaccination on the reproduction number

Awards

2025

• Best Oral Presentation Award(우수상) - The 2025 Fall Conference of the Korean Data and Information Science Society

• Best Poster Award(우수논문상) - 2025 KAGIS Fall Conference & IAG'i International Symposium

2023

• Best Poster Award(장려상) - 2023 Youngnam Mathematical Society Annual Meeting