Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, 2021
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, 2016
B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, 2014
Research Assistant Professor in Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Nov. 2024 – Aug. 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA (Sep. 2021 – Oct. 2024)
Visiting Scholar in University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy (May 2023 - May 2023)
Visiting Scholar in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (Sep. 2017 – Nov. 2017)
Urban Mobility
Autonomous Driving
Travel Behavior
Urban Science
Public Transit
J. Cho, S. Li, J. Kim, C. Wu “Temporal Transfer Learning for Traffic Optimization with Coarse-grained Advisory Autonomy,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Accepted.
S. Yang, J. Kim, S. Lim, “High-Accuracy Path Tracking for Unmanned Vehicle Navigation: A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Accepted.
J. Kim, J. Cho, C. Wu, “Reinforcement Learning for Robust Advisories under Driving Compliance Errors,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, Jun. 2025.
J. Kim, A. Conti, M. Z. Win, “Travel Demand Modeling and Estimation for High-Dimensional Mobility,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 40, no. 3, 1264-1277, Aug. 2024.
J. Kim, S. Tak, J. Lee, and H. Yeo, “Integrated Design Framework for On-Demand Transit System based on SpatiotemporalMobility Patterns,” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 150, Mar. 2023.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):