Mikyoung Jun
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Mikyoung Jun is a Korean-American statistician whose research topics have included the covariance of non-stationary spatial models, and applications in atmospheric science and climate modeling as well as to understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of global terrorism. She is ConocoPhillips Professor of Data Science in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Houston.[1]
Jun earned a bachelor's degree in statistics from Seoul National University in 1999.[2][3] She completed her PhD in 2005 at the University of Chicago; her dissertation, Space-Time Models and Their Application to Air Pollution, was supervised by Michael L. Stein.[4]
She joined Texas A&M University as an assistant professor of statistics in 2005, earned tenure as an associate professor there in 2012,[2][3] and was promoted to full professor in 2018. In 2020, she moved to the University of Houston as ConocoPhillips Professor of Data Science.[2]
