Jeongyun Kim is an assistant professor with the Dept. of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory (WINS Lab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received the Ph.D. degree in civil and environmental engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Her research is in the area of modeling urban mobility and developing solutions to the challenges related to the autonomous urban mobility system. Her current research focuses on mobility analytics using large-scale movement data and modeling autonomy control system using machine learning.
Education
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2021
Dissertation: Data-Driven Design of On-Demand Transit Service
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2016
Thesis: Hierarchical Pedestrian Behavior Model with Anticipation
B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2014
Professional Experience
Seoul National Univeristy of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Sep. 2025 - present)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (Nov. 2024 - Aug. 2025)
Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (Sep. 2021 - Nov. 2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory
University of Ferrara, Ferrara, FE, Italy (May 2023 - May 2023)
Visiting Scholar, Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory