Habeom has been conducting archaeological research in East Asia focusing on migration and cultural transition processes during prehistoric periods in Korea and Japan. His research topics include long-term human-environment interaction, social complexity, demographic processes, and cultural landscape. He specializes in Geographic Information System (GIS), data analysis/visualization, and computational methods. He is particularly interested in leveraging these methods on existing archaeological dataset residing in open source and grey literature to generate new insights about the past.
Habeom has a Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Oregon, 2019). In his public career, he works as research scientist for the California State government. At UC Berkeley ARF, Habeom is serving as research associate in his personal capacity.
