Rate My Professor In-Young Yeo

Associate Professor In-Young Yeo serves as Associate Professor of Civil, Surveying, and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia, since 2015. Born and raised in South Korea amid rapid industrialization and environmental challenges, she earned her PhD in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University in 2005, with research optimizing land development patterns under economic and environmental constraints. Previously, she taught at Ohio State University, Cornell University, and the University of Maryland, where she contributed to developing the Professional Master Program in Geospatial Information Sciences. She led the redesign and development of the BEng/MPEng in Surveying and Geospatial Engineering for the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle. Yeo has served as University Delegate to the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) and the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) in the USA, and currently sits on the educational committee of the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) NSW.

Her research focuses on catchment hydrology, GIS and remote sensing, environmental planning, and spatial data analytics, examining the interface between land and water systems, including drivers, changes, consequences, and feedback loops under climate change and human development pressures. Utilizing remote sensing, modeling, and numerical methods, her work supports soil, water, and wetlands management for natural resource planning, agricultural practices, and policy. Collaborations span the US Department of Agriculture, US Geological Survey, EPA, NASA/USDA, Soil CRC, CSIRO, and Australian universities. Key grants include the 2024 ARC Discovery Project 'Tracking flood waters over Australia using space gravity data' ($258,579), 2023 'Geodesy, Hydroclimate and Space Weather Experiment with Skykraft Satellite Constellation' ($150,000), and 2021 'Matching soil performance indicators to farming systems' ($47,300) from CRC for High Performance Soils. Prominent publications feature 'Optimizing Patterns of Land Use to Reduce Peak Runoff Flow and Nonpoint Source Pollution with an Integrated Hydrological and Land-Use Model' (2004) and 'A hierarchical optimization approach to watershed land use planning' (2007, Water Resources Research). She received the University of Newcastle Women in Research Fellowship in 2017.