Jaehyun (Jason) So, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Transportation System Engineering
Ajou University, Sep. 2020 - Present
Research Interests: Automated Driving/Vehicles Technology and its Reliability/Effectiveness Assessment, Mobility Operation Design and Validation, Mobility Data Analytics and Visualization, Traffic/Vehicle Simulations
Career
B.S. Ajou University, 2001-2006
M.S. Ajou University, 2006-2008
Ph.D. University of Virginia, U.S., 2010-2013
Research Assistant Korea Transport Institute, 2008-2010, 2016-2020
Post-doctoral Research Associate Florida Atlantic University, U.S., 2013-2014
Research Scientist and Alexander von Humboldt Scholar Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2014-2016
Associate Research Fellow, Korea Transport Institute, 2016-2020
Biography
Dr. Jaehyun (Jason) So is Associate Professor in the Department of Transportation System Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. He is operating the mobility operation design, validation, and enhancement laboratory “move lab” at Ajou University, and leading various research projects in ITS/C-ITS, Automated Vehicle (AV), Smart Mobility, and mobility data. Remarkably, his research group “move lab” is involved with many national AV level 4 technology research and development projects about AV level 4 testbed technology development, and law/regulation compliance validation platform development. Furthermore, his research group is involved with regional and metropolitan mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) masterplan and service design projects, and is also involved with the traffic safety decision support solution based on mobility and accident data, in collaboration with local governments and national research institutes. Before joining Ajou University, he worked 4 years for the Center of Smart City and Transport at Korea Transport Institute (Oct. 2016 – Aug. 2020) and led many national Smart City projects and studies such as national Smart City demonstrations (Sejong and Busan) and the Smart Mobility/Parking technologies research and development project. Before back in Korea, he worked a total of 4 years for Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (Aug. 2013 - Oct. 2014) in the United States and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Nov. 2014 - Sep. 2016) in Germany as research scientist and lecturer. During his research period at TUM, he was awarded a Alexander von Humboldt scholar with two-years of research funding, and worked as an European research coordinator of TUM. Based on his international experiences, he is actively cooperating with many researchers and scholars of Korea and other countries in terms of research projects and scientific papers in the areas of ITS/C-ITS, Automated Vehicle (AV), Smart Mobility, and mobility data, and is seeking for further domestic and international collaboration in interesting scientific activities.
