Bio

Yongsung Lee's research focuses are the relationship between urban form and travel behavior, and its implications to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission. In his Master's Thesis, Yongsung wrote about the price elasticity of automobile gasoline and its variation depending on different urban forms and policies; all else being equal, the more compact urbanized areas are, the more sensitive to gasoline price their residents are. Recently, Yongsung is analyzing the impact of high energy price on urban form.

Before joining Georgia Tech, Yongsung worked as a research assistant at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) from 2008 to 2010. Yongsung earned a MUP (2012) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a M.E. in Architectural Planning (2008) and a B.S in Architecture (2003) from Seoul National University in South Korea.