Hwanseok W. Choi, PhD, MS, MA

Hwanseok W. Choi, PhD, MS, MA 

Associate Professor & Biostatistician

Community Health & Preventive Medicine

Graduate Education Nursing
Location: MRC, Room F-S22
Phone: (404) 752-1923
E-mail: hchoi@msm.edu

Education

POSTGRADUATE:
The University of Alabama
Degree: PhD in Applied Statistics

GRADUATE:
The University of Alabama
Degree: Master of Science (MS) in Applied Statistics

UNDERGRADUTE:
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Degree: Bachelor in Business Administration

Research Interests

  • High Dimensional Data Classification
  • Causal Inference
  • Mental Health Impacts: Loneliness, Depression, and Obesity

Specialties

Statistical Analyses

Publications

  • Ankmnal Veeranna, S. A. Marx, C. G. Choi, H. White, C. & Ward, K. (2023). A Retrospective Analysis of Hearing Screening Outcomes in Infants Whose Mothers were COVID-19 Positive during Pregnancy. Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, 8(2), 34-38. DOI:
  • Choi, H., Brazeal, M., Duggirala, L., & Lee, J., (2022) 鈥淟oneliness and depression among adults living on MS Gulf Coast: individual, interpersonal, and community predictors,鈥� International Journal of Social Psychiatry,
  • Lemacks, J. L., Abbott, L. L., Bryant, A. L., Choi, H., & Ralston, P. A., (2020) 鈥淭he Church Bridge Project: Lessons Learned from Comparing the Outcomes of an Adapted Church-Based Weight Management Intervention Targeting African American Adults,鈥� Journal of Epidemiological Research, DOI: 10.5430/jer.v5n2p37, URL:
  • Herring, A., Kolbo, J., Choi, H., Molaison, E., Harbaugh, B., Hardin, L., & Ismail, O., (2020). 鈥淏reastfeeding History, Preschool Children's Sleep, and Obesity,鈥� Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing,
  • Choi, H., Li, M., Frederick, S., & Anderson-Lewis, C., (2019) 鈥淯sing Medicaid Data to Identify Factors that Predict Reinstitutionalization of Mississippians with Disabilities and Elderly People,鈥� Journal of Public Health in the Deep South, Retrieved from
  • Choi, H., Lee, J., Doty, S., Rouhbakhsh, R. A., Brazeal, M., Rehner, T., & Cochran, D., (2019) 鈥淭he Relationship between Obesity and Depression among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients,鈥� Journal of Public Health in the Deep South, Retrieved from
  • Choi, Hwanseok, Lee, Cheolwoo, & Jeon, Jin Q, 鈥淎 Simulation Study on Clustering Multivariate Time Series Using Kernel Variant Multi-Way Principal Component Analysis鈥� Korean Journal of Futures and Options, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2017

Honors and Awards

  • July 2022 - ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Hattiesburg, MS 
  • June 2008 - R.L. Anderson Student Paper Award, SRCOS, Charleston, SC 
  • June 2008 - The American Statistical Association Travel Award (TASA) to attend 2008 SRCOS SRC, Charleston, SC