Inventory Data Scientist, MOF
Hyeyoung Woo joined the Inventory Analysis and Reporting team in 2024. As an inventory data scientist, her responsibilities include the management and analysis of provincial forest inventory data. Prior to joining the MoF, Hyeyoung worked as a research fellow at the University of Victoria from 2021 to 2023, after earning her PhD in Forestry from UBC. Her research focused on integrating ground-based and remotely sensed forest inventory data to assess wildfire impacts. Outside of work, she enjoys adventuring with her husband, Woongsoon, and spending quality time with their kids.
My research interests involve quantifying the effect of natural disturbances on forest structures. The natural disturbances include, but not limited to, forest fires, tree disease epidemics, and their interactions with global climate changes. Employing diverse of statistical methods such as spatio-temporal analysis and comparing their performances are also attractive. I demonstrated spatial point processing to dealing with forest fire occurrence data in my Master’s thesis at the University of Montana, USA. I completed my Bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University, South Korea. I am going to be a PhD student under supervision of Dr. Bianca Eskelson starting from Jan 2016, funded by Faculty of Forestry Doctoral Fellowship. My PhD research would focus on post-disturbance forest dynamics across western Canada and USA, using GIS-processed forest inventory data and different matching methods.
Hyeyoung Woo joined the Inventory Analysis and Reporting team in 2024. As an inventory data scientist, her responsibilities include the management and analysis of provincial forest inventory data. Prior to joining the MoF, Hyeyoung worked as a research fellow at the University of Victoria from 2021 to 2023, after earning her PhD in Forestry from UBC. Her research focused on integrating ground-based and remotely sensed forest inventory data to assess wildfire impacts. Outside of work, she enjoys adventuring with her husband, Woongsoon, and spending quality time with their kids.