Member

Human Factors Centered Transport Safety Laboratory

Professor

Affiliation

  • Oct. 2022 – Present        Associate Professor, KAIST, South Korea
  • Apr. 2021– Sept. 2022   Post-doctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
  • Oct. 2020 – Apr. 2021    Senior Researcher, Centre for Advances in Reliability and Safety, HKSTP

ACADEMIC SERVICES

  • Editor, Case Studies on Transport Policy, (Elsevier) 2024~present
  • Guest Editor, Research in Transportation Business and Management (RTBM), (SCI, Q2, IF: 4.1) Special Issue on “The Future of Low-Cost Carriers: Trends, Challenges and Policies with the Global Perspective”, 2024~present
  • Guest Editor, Multimodal Transportation, Special Issue on “ISMT conference”, 2024~2025
  • Guest Editor, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Special Issue on “Innovations for Transportation Decarbonization”, 2023~2024
  • Committee Member, the World Transport Convention (WTC), Technical Committee (TC), 2023~present
  • Committee Member, IEEE Emerging Transportation Technology Testing (ET3) Technical Committee (TC), 2023~present
  • Chair, International Committee, Korean Society of Transportation, 2023~present
  • Chair, Departmental Internationalization Committee, KAIST, 2022~present
  • Committee Member, Departmental New Faculty Search Committee, KAIST, 2024~present

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Human Factors, Human-Machine Interaction
  • Traffic Safety
  • Driving Simulation, Digital Twin Platform
  • Travel Behavior Analysis
  • Econometric and AI Models

EDUCATION

  • 2021 PhD     The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • 2015 MS       Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Environmental Health and Safety
  • 2014 BS        Zhejiang Gongshang University Environmental Science

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

    2025

  • The College of Engineering Research Webzine 'KAIST Breakthroughs' 2025 Spring, Title: Smart Warnings: LLM-enabled personalized driver assistance

    • 2024

  • Best paper (Second Prize), the 28th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, 11-12 December, Hong Kong
  • EWON Associate (Chair) Professorship, KAIST Outstanding Young Faculty Award
  • Best paper presentation award, the 90th Korean Society of Transportation Conference, 27-28 March, Seoul, South Korea (PhD student Yiping Liu)

    • 2023

  • Best paper (First Prize), the 27th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, 11-12 December, Hong Kong
  • The College of Engineering Research Webzine 'KAIST Breakthroughs' 2023 Fall, Title: Safety Impact of Ride-hailing App on Taxi Drivers
  • Award Winner, International Category, 2023 KAIST Q-Day

    • 2022

  • HKIE-SSC Project Competition 2021 (Runner-up Award) (Awarding Institution: Hong Kong Institution of Engineers - Safety Specialist Committee)