Awards & Service

Beyond publications, my professional record includes competitive awards and research support, invited talks, peer review for journals and conferences, and membership in the societies that shape transportation and computing research.

Awards, Fellowships, and Research Support

  • Postdoctoral Supplemental Travel Award Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars, Purdue University · $500 · Oct 2026 · 18 of 48 applicants across 11 Purdue colleges
  • ChatGPT for Academic Researchers Program OpenAI · Approved Participant · Aug 2026
  • Google Cloud Research Credits Program Google Cloud · Credit Recipient · $1,000 each · Aug 2025 and Jun 2026
  • 2025 ITE Great Lakes District Student Paper Award and GLITE Endowment Fund Great Lakes District of the Institute of Transportation Engineers · Jun 2025 · first place, regional student paper competition
  • Honorable Mention, 2025 Clifford Spiegelman Student Paper Competition Transportation Statistics Interest Group, American Statistical Association · Jan 2025
  • KOTAA Travel Grant Award Korean Transportation Association in America · Jan 2024 and Jan 2025
  • Student Paper Award ITE Indiana · Dec 2024
  • Kinnier Graduate Scholarship Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University · Oct 2024
  • STV Civil Engineering Graduate Assistantship Endowment Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University · Oct 2024
  • Crooks Travel Scholarship Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University · Sep 2023
  • Outstanding Paper Award Korean Society of Transportation · Feb 2016 and Mar 2018 · 74th and 78th conferences

Invited Talks and Selected Presentations

  • Physics-Informed AI for Transportation Systems CGN 6425: Applied Data Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florida · Apr 2026 · invited guest lecture
  • Needs and Gap Assessment of INDOT Workforce Development 2025 Purdue Road School Transportation Conference and Expo · Mar 2025
  • A Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Generalized Bathtub Model in Large-Scale Urban Networks TRB ACP50 Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, General Webinar Series · Mar 2023

Peer Review

Journals

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice · Transportation Research Part B: Methodological · Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies · Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour · Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board · Transportation · Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems · Data Science for Transportation · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · Scientific Reports · Electric Power Systems Research · The Journal of Supercomputing · Journal of Cloud Computing

Conferences

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting · IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference · ISTTT25 and ISTTT26 (co-reviewer)

Professional Memberships

  • American Society of Civil Engineers Associate Member since May 2025, Student Member 2022 to 2025 · Corresponding Member, Artificial Intelligence Committee, since Aug 2025
  • Association for Computing Machinery Professional Member since Aug 2025
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member since May 2025
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Member since May 2023
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers, Purdue Student Chapter Member since Aug 2020 · Communications Director, 2024 to 2025