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Jinjae Kim

Jinjae Kim

PhD Student · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hi 👋 I study database-driven decision making in the transportation and freight sector — and how we can advance it. I am a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, focusing on Transportation and Highway Engineering.

My work sits between transportation fundamentals and urban logistics: refining vehicle-level GHG estimates from trajectory data, and understanding how last-mile delivery reshapes demand across a city. Before RPI I was a researcher at the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), where I helped develop Korea's national vehicle emission estimation models.

  • #GHG-emission-modeling
  • #last-mile-logistics
  • #traffic-big-data
  • #GIS
  • #machine-learning

Recents

What I have been up to

  • Started my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

  • Best Paper Award. Venue and paper title to be filled from the updated CV.

  • Researcher at the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), Sejong — national GHG emission model development and autonomous driving risk prediction.

  • Presented Gradient Matters: Quantifying Road Slope Effects on Vehicle Speed for Tier 3 Emission Modeling at Spatial Statistics 2025.

  • Completed my M.S. in Logistics at Inha University — received the President's Award of the Graduate School of Logistics.

Off the Clock

A few things outside the lab

  • Claude Coding

    Building small tools and side projects with Claude — this website included.

  • Cooking

    Trying new recipes on weekends, from comfort food to the occasional ambitious experiment.

  • In Progress

    Still figuring out what else belongs here — more to come.

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