Bogang Jun

Bogang Jun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Data Science at Inha University. She also serves as Director of the Research Center for Small Businesses Ecosystem, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Her research spans economic complexity, economic geography, economic development, and urban studies, with a strong emphasis on big data analytics. In recent years, her work has increasingly focused on data-driven analyses of urban small-business ecosystems, building multi-layered big-data platforms to understand how cities evolve through the interactions of firms, people, and places. She conducts integrative, interdisciplinary research that bridges complexity economics, spatial analysis, and data science to uncover the structural dynamics that shape local economies and regional resilience.

Dr. Jun holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Seoul National University. She previously held research positions at the Chair of Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, and served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Macro Connections/Collective Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab from 2016 to 2019.