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Full document, updated August 2026

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Troy, NY, USA Aug 2026 – Present

    Transportation and Highway Engineering.

  • M.S. in Logistics Inha University, Graduate School of Logistics · Incheon, Korea Aug 2024 · GPA 4.35 / 4.5

    Inha President's Award. Thesis: A Study on the Determinants of Customer Logistics Volume — A Case Study of the Parcel Delivery System in Seoul (Advisor: Dr. Daisik Nam).

  • B.A. in Logistics, Minor in Computer Engineering Inha University · Incheon, Korea Feb 2022 · GPA 3.84 / 4.5

Experience

  • Researcher Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) · Sejong, Korea Sep 2023 – Jul 2026

    Carbon Emission System Development — national GHG emission model improvement, link-based traffic data, ML applications. Autonomous Driving High-Risk Accident Prediction — network segmentation and risk factor definition.

  • Research Assistant Inha University Mar 2022 – Aug 2023

    Built an integrated parcel / land-use / census database for customer logistics; slot allocation optimization for last-mile delivery.

  • Research Assistant Inha University Mar 2021 – Aug 2022

    Social Network Analysis of government–industry–academia collaboration during COVID-19.

  • [ Project — title to be confirmed ]

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Honors and Awards

  • President's Award, Graduate School of Logistics Inha University 2024
  • Bronze Award, Kakao Mobility Data Contest 40th Anniversary International Conference of the Korean Society of Transportation 2022
  • Silver Award, Industrial Application Project Competition Korean Society of Supply Chain Management 2022
  • Excellence Award 88th TOSOK Daegu / Gyeongbuk International Tourism Conference 2020
  • Encouragement Award, Undergraduate Financial Security Camp Financial Security Institute 2020

Interest

What I want to work on next

  • Database-driven decision making in transportation and freight

    Turning large operational datasets into decisions that hold up — for networks, fleets and freight corridors.

  • Vehicle-level GHG emission modeling

    Correction factors for road gradient and acceleration; moving national inventories toward Tier 3 trajectory-based accounting.

  • Last-mile and urban logistics

    Demand intensity, service-vulnerable areas, and shared multimodal delivery as a lever on urban traffic.

  • Traffic big data & machine learning

    Link-based trajectory data, RF-based volume estimation, and network connectivity as model inputs.

Skills

  • Languages

    Korean (native) · English (fluent)

  • Programming

    Python · C++ · Claude

  • Tools

    ArcGIS, QGIS (fluent) · SPSS, SPSS Amos, NetMiner (intermediate)