Economist
KeyLogic / National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) (2024 - present)
Leading research on CO₂-Enhanced Oil recovery markets and assessing the financial feasibility and broader economic implications of carbon capture and storage initiatives.
Developing a variable renewable energy forecasting model incorporating uncertainty through Monte Carlo simulations to improve estimates of generation, balancing, and reserve costs under varying levels of renewable penetration.
Conducting comprehensive analyses of historical and projected U.S. electricity demand to identify long-term consumption trends, emerging sources of demand growth, and implications for infrastructure adequacy and system reliability.
Project IN-CORE, Community Initiatives (2025 - present)
Developing computable general equilibrium (CGE) models as part of the Geos Institute CDRZ projects to assess the economic impacts of natural hazards on local communities by integrating engineering-based post-hazard functionality assessments with economic modeling.
Government, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Mather, CA, United States. (November 2023-November2025)
Developing dynamic CGE models for three communities in California differentiated by income level to evaluate distributional economic impacts of earthquake events.
Quantifying community resilience by integrating engineering-based physical damage analyses with economic modeling and examining how financial constraints and the timing of financial assistance affect post-disaster recovery.
Non-profit research agency, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO, United States. (January 2022-December 2023)
Leading CGE modeling for the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100), a major Department Of Energy-funded initiative.
Delivering macroeconomic impact analysis of transitioning to 100% renewable energy, incorporating changes in employment, energy burden, electricity rates, and capital investment.
Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Assistant
Non-profit research agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology Center (NIST) Center for the Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Fort Collins, CO, United States. (May 2019-December 2024)
Developing CGE models to assess the economic impacts of natural hazards on local communities by integrating engineering-based post-hazard functionality assessments into economic modeling.
The developed model was applied to five communities under scenario-based hazard events: Lumberton, NC (flood); Seaside, OR (earthquake); Joplin, MO (tornado); Salt Lake City, UT (earthquake); and Galveston, TX (hurricane).
Contributing to the development of Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE), a computational environment for integrated community resilience modeling, by developing economic models to assess the impacts of natural hazards and infrastructure disruptions on local communities.
Non-profit research agency, NIST Center for the Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Fort Collins, CO, United States. (May 2019-August 2021)
Developing eight regional CGE models aligned to Bureau of Economic Analysis regions to measure the economic impact of improved precipitation, wind, and temperature forecasts.
Estimating annual and monthly real-time wholesale electricity market prices using quarter-hourly data to evaluate cost savings from improved wind forecasts.
Government, Larimer County Workforce Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States.(November 2020-February 2021)
Analyzing COVID-19 labor market disruptions for the Larimer County region, mapping dislocated workers' skills to emerging opportunities in a post-pandemic economy.
Nofal, Omar M., Nathanael Rosenheim, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, Jayant Patil, Xiangnan Zhou, ... & Jeon, H. "Methodology for interdependent population–building–infrastructure posthazard functionality assessment for communities." Journal of Structural Engineering 151, no. 5 (2025): 04025048. Link to published article.
Roohi, M., Ghasemi, S., Sediek, O., Jeon, H., van de Lindt, J. W., Shields, M., ... & Cutler, H. (2024). Multi-disciplinary seismic resilience modeling for developing mitigation policies and recovery planning. Resilient Cities and Structures, 3(2), 66-84. Link to published article.
Nofal, O., Rosenheim, N., Kameshwar, S., Patil, J., Zhou, X., van de Lindt, J. W., ... & Jeon, H. (2024). Community‐level post‐hazard functionality methodology for buildings exposed to floods. Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Link to published article.
Amini, Mehrshad, Hwayoung Jeon, Dylan R. Sanderson, Daniel T. Cox, Andre R. Barbosa, and Harvey Cutler. "Integrated Engineering–Economic Analysis for Multihazard Damage and Loss Assessment." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 29, no. 4 (2023): 04023031. Link to published article.
Turner, David D., Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, Rebecca Hill, Brad Hartman, Yuchen Hu, Tao Lu, and Hwayoung Jeon. "Evaluating HRRR Improvements by Quantifying Their Economic Impacts." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104, no. 4 (2023): 259-262. Link to published article.
Jeon, Hwayoung. "Renewable versus non-renewable: the role of electricity generation to economic growth." The Electricity Journal 35, no. 6 (2022): 107140. Link to published article.
Jeon, Hwayoung. "CO2 emissions, renewable energy and economic growth in the US." The Electricity Journal 35, no. 7 (2022): 107170. Link to published article.
Jeon, Hwayoung, Brad Hartman, Harvey Cutler, Rebecca Hill, Yuchen Hu, Tao Lu, Martin Shields, and David D. Turner. "Estimating the economic impacts of improved wind speed forecasts in the United States electricity sector." Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 14, no. 3 (2022). Link to published article.
Turner, David D., Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, Rebecca Hill, Brad Hartman, Yuchen Hu, Tao Lu, and Hwayoung Jeon. "Evaluating the economic impacts of improvements to the high-resolution rapid refresh (HRRR) numerical weather prediction model." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2022): 1-36. Link to published article.
Baggu, M., Burton, R., Blair, N., Sengupta, M., Harris, T., Barrows, C., ... & Chait, M. (2024). Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100): Final Report (No. NREL/TP-6A20-88384). National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Link to published article.
Baggu, M., Burton, R., Blair, N., Sengupta, M., Harris, T., Barrows, C., ... & Chait, M. (2024). Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100): Summary Report (No. NREL/TP-6A20-88615). National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Link to published article.
Shields, M., H. Cutler, K. Crofton, H. Jeon and T. Lu. (2021). “Bouncing Forward after Covid19: An analysis of the labor market effects of Covid-19 in Larimer County and future opportunities.” 88 pages.
“From Physical Vulnerability to Functionality: Socio-Physical Post-Hazard Functionality Assessment Approach for Communities Exposed to Flood Hazards” (with Omar M. Nofal, Nathanael Rosenheim, et al.) (Under review)
"Rethinking Earthquake Resilience Metrics: Quantifying Economic Inequality in Community Recovery" (with Omar A. Sediek, John W. van de Lindt, Jia Wang-Connelly, Sara K. McBride, and Harvey Cutler) (Under review)
National Adaptation Forum. Pittsburgh, PA. (2026)
Western Economic Association International. Seattle, WA (2024)
Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning Semi-Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. (2023)
American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. (2023)
Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning Semi-Annual Meeting. Fort Collins, CO. (2022)
North American Regional Science Council. Denver, CO. (2021)
Virtual Western Economic Association International. (2020)
North American Eastern Economic Association. Boston, MA. (2020)
North American Regional Science Council. Pittsburgh, PA. (2019)
World Congress of Social Economics. Fort Collins, CO. (2018)
Eastern Economic Association. Boston, MA. (2018)
Western Graduate Workshop in Economics. Salt Lake City, UT. (2016, 2017)
Participant, IN-CORE and Design Safe Workshop (2023)
Participant, NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems Workshop (2023)
Participant, Teaching Effectiveness Program - Colorado State University (2020) Participant, CORE-USA Inaugural Workshop - Barnard College (2018)
Participant, Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (2017)
Academic Advisor, Global Economics Department - Sungkyunkwan University (2009)