Hi, my name is Taesoo! 👋🏻

About

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley, studying urban planning and housing policy. My research lies at the intersection of housing, immigration, inequality, and urban analytics, organized around two themes. First, I explore how moving beyond the pan-ethnic “Asian” category to examine ethnic differences and immigration trajectories provides a more nuanced understanding of Asian American housing experiences. Second, I investigate how housing policy shapes residential mobility across varying contexts, leveraging big data and computational methods.

My current affiliations include:

• Graduate Student Researcher, Terner Center for Housing Innovation
• Graduate Fellow, UC Berkeley Asian American Studies Research Center
• Data Science Fellow, UC Berkeley D-lab

I have also worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at the Urban Displacement Project. Prior to my doctoral program, I was a researcher at the Seoul Institute, studying commercial gentrification and urban industries in downtown Seoul. You can refer to my Curriculum Vitae for more information.