Associate Professor Jiwon Kim

Associate Professor

School of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
jiwon.kim@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 63008

Overview

Jiwon Kim is an Associate Professor in Transport Engineering and the Director of Higher Degree by Research in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland. She was a DECRA Fellow (2019-2022) sponsored by the Australian Research Council. She joined UQ in 2014 after completing her PhD research at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern, she worked at Samsung C&T (Engineering & Construction Group). She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in civil engineering from Korea University.

Her research interests broadly encompass the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to enhance prediction, automation, and insight generation in transportation and urban mobility. She is passionate about developing intelligent autonomous systems that facilitate real-time traffic management and control, mobility service optimization, and traveller support. Her current research explores the potential of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other cutting-edge AI/ML approaches to achieve these objectives.

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in transport and logistics
    Data-driven modelling of traffic networks and mobility services; Data-driven traffic simulation; AI and multi-agent systems (reinforcement learning, imitation learning)
  • Predictive analytics for real-time traffic management and operations
    Real-time traffic estimation and prediction for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); Traffic incident management; Decision support systems and automation
  • Urban Trajectory Data Analytics
    Urban vehicle trajectories in large-scale networks: data mining, pattern recognition, trajectory prediction and generation, and visualization; urban mobility insights and travel behavour
  • Traffic simulation and Traffic flow theory
    Traffic simulation (microsimulation/mesosimulation); Dynamic traffic assignment (DTA); Scenario generation and analysis

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • This Advanced Research Assistant will work as a part of Dr Jiwon Kim's research team to provide a technical support for developing and maintaining open-source software that is designed to analyse large-scale urban mobility data, specifically spatio-temporal trajectory data of vehicles and people travelling around a city (e.g., trajectories from GPS, Bluetooth, cellphones, and transit smart cards).

    Please contact jiwon.kim@uq.edu.au for more information.

  • - Big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) applications

    - Real-time traffic management and control

    - Spatio-temporal analysis of trajectory data in road networks

    - Data-driven approaches to traffic estimation and prediction

    - Congestion management and avoidance

    - Incident detection and traffic incident management

  • - Learning human mobility behaviours from large-scale movement data

    - Imitation learning for human behaviour modelling in traffic networks

    - Multi-agent reinforcement learning for network traffic managmenet

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Publications

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Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • This Advanced Research Assistant will work as a part of Dr Jiwon Kim's research team to provide a technical support for developing and maintaining open-source software that is designed to analyse large-scale urban mobility data, specifically spatio-temporal trajectory data of vehicles and people travelling around a city (e.g., trajectories from GPS, Bluetooth, cellphones, and transit smart cards).

    Please contact jiwon.kim@uq.edu.au for more information.

  • - Big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) applications

    - Real-time traffic management and control

    - Spatio-temporal analysis of trajectory data in road networks

    - Data-driven approaches to traffic estimation and prediction

    - Congestion management and avoidance

    - Incident detection and traffic incident management

  • - Learning human mobility behaviours from large-scale movement data

    - Imitation learning for human behaviour modelling in traffic networks

    - Multi-agent reinforcement learning for network traffic managmenet

  • - Advanced analysis techniques for micro- and meso-scopic traffic simulation models

    - Analysis of traffic flow breakdown phenomena

    - Modeling driver behavior and traffic flow characteristics under a connected and/or autonomous vehicle environment (e.g., V2V, V2I, and self-driving car)

    - Analysis of traffic flow variables using new sources of data (e.g., GPS devices, RFID tags, radar, and video)

  • - Use of video data (e.g., CCTV, drones) for traffic data collection and analysis

    - Resilient transport systems; vulnerability and risk assessment of road networks related to extreme weather events

    Dr. Kim is also happy to consider other topics related to transport planning and operations, traffic modeling and analysis, and urban traffic management.