Eun Sug Park is an American statistician who works as a senior research scientist in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She is known for her research on the statistics of traffic safety, and on whether public transportation reduces air pollution,[1] as well as for her book on traffic simulation.
Park earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Seoul National University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. She completed a doctorate in statistics at Texas A&M University in 1997.[2] Her dissertation, Multivariate Receptor Modeling from a Statistical Science Viewpoint, was supervised by Clifford Spiegelman.[3] She became a member of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute in 2001.[2]
With Clifford Spiegelman and Laurence R. Rilett, Park is a co-author of the book Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation (CRC Press, 2016).[4]
Park won the Patricia F. Waller Award of the Transportation Research Board in 2009, for her work with Kay Fitzpatrick on pedestrian safety,[5] and the D. Grant Mickle Award of the TRB in 2011 for her work with Fitzpatrick, Susan Chrysler, and Vichika Iragavarapu on the visibility of crosswalk indicators.[6]
In 2019 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7]She is also an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[8]