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.
Recents
What I have been up to
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Started my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
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Best Paper Award. Venue and paper title to be filled from the updated CV.
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Researcher at the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI), Sejong — national GHG emission model development and autonomous driving risk prediction.
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Presented Gradient Matters: Quantifying Road Slope Effects on Vehicle Speed for Tier 3 Emission Modeling at Spatial Statistics 2025.
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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
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Claude Coding
Building small tools and side projects with Claude — this website included.
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Cooking
Trying new recipes on weekends, from comfort food to the occasional ambitious experiment.
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In Progress
Still figuring out what else belongs here — more to come.
Contact
- Personalcontact.jjkim@gmail.com
- Academickimj61@rpi.edu
- LinkedInjin-jae-kim
- Instagram@zzinni._.k