Dr. Gunho Sohn

Gunho Sohn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth and Science and Engineering and the Inaugural Director of the Mobility Innovation Centre (MOVE) at the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University. A two-time recipient of York’s Research Leadership Award and the PEO York Chapter Engineering Research Project of the Year Award, Dr. Sohn is actively leading a multidisciplinary research team in spatial data analytics, computer vision, and machine learning. The research group has extensive experience in reconstructing a large-scale built environment using autonomous vehicles and mapping, with applications to various areas of urban digital twin technologies. His research group has participated in many large-scale research projects (CFI, NSERC CREATE, ORF-RE, and ORF-Infrastructure), through which he has collaborated with multiple universities, international institutions, and industrial partners. His pioneering works of digital twining urban systems have been successfully commercialized through his industrial collaborators. Dr. Sohn received a Ph.D. from University College London with the recipient of the best thesis award from the British Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society in 2004. Since joining York University in 2008, he has worked as a Research Scientist in Satellite R&D Division at Samsung Aerospace Industry, Ltd. from 1993 to 1999. Gunho Sohn received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degrees in Astronomy and Space Science from Yonsei University, South Korea.