Curriculum Vitae

Hyunchul Park · Ph.D. student, Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, KAIST.
hyunchul.park@kaist.ac.kr · Google Scholar

Education

Publications

* Corresponding author.

International journal

  1. Park, H., Oh, T., Lim, J., & Kim, I.* (2026). Micro Mobility Safety Challenges: A Study on Drivers Overtaking Bicycles and E-Scooters according to Road Conditions and Prior Riding Experience. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 117, 103482. [link]
  2. Lim, J., Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.* (2025). The Impact of Information Delivery Systems in Tunnels Depending on Lighting Intensity and Speed Limit. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 157, 106365. [link]
  3. Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.* (2024). Effects of Driver's Braking Behavior by the Real-Time Pedestrian Scale Warning System. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 205, 107685. [link]

Domestic journal

  1. Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.* (2022). A Study on Validation of Omnidirectional VR Treadmill by Comparison of Spatial Orientation Skills. Journal of Korean Society of Intelligent Transport Systems, 21(5), 15–27.

Under review

  1. Park, H., Oh, T., Kim, J., Kim, J., & Kim, I.* (2026). From Passive Visibility to Active Permissibility: A Virtual Reality Study on Overcoming Track Avoidance Bias in Subway Station Fires. Underground Space. (Under review, R1.)
  2. Park, H., Oh, T., Liu, Y., & Kim, I.* (2026). Aggressiveness-Calibrated Adversarial Scenario Generation for Highway Autonomous Vehicle Safety Evaluation. Accident Analysis & Prevention. (Under review.)
  3. Baek, J., Kim, J., Park, H., & Kim, I.* (2026). How Age-Related Constraints Reshape Transport Disadvantage in Railway Information Systems: Evidence from Virtual Aging Simulation. Journal of Urban Mobility. (Under review, R1.)
  4. Kim, J., Kim, M., Kim, J., Park, H., & Kim, I.* (2026). Risks of Static Obstacle Placement in Crowd Evacuation: Density Sensitivity and the Isolation of Beneficial Zones. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. (Under review.)

In preparation / Submission ready

  1. Park, H., & Kim, I.* (2026). Beyond Collision Rate: SUT-Invariant Adversarial Evaluation of Autonomous Driving via Item Response Theory.
  2. Park, H., Tamakloe, R., Kim, E. M., Lim, J., & Kim, I.* (2026). Human-Centric Evaluation of UWB-based V2P ADAS: How Pedestrian Tag Adoption Rates Influence Driver Cognitive Load and Safety Performance in School Zones.
  3. Park, H., & Kim, I.* (2026). Crossing in Front of a Humanoid-Driven Vehicle: Effects of In-Cabin Driver Embodiment and eHMI on Pedestrian Decisions.
  4. Park, H., & Kim, I.* (2026). From Ghost Driver to Humanoid: In-Cabin Embodiment Effects on Surrounding Drivers' Gap Acceptance and Lane-Change Latency.

Conferences

Upcoming

  1. ITS World Congress 2026, 2026. Upcoming presentation.

Articles in International Conference Proceedings

  1. Park, H., & Kim, I.*
    Severity-Controllable Adversarial Testing of Highway Automated Vehicles Using Naturalistic Aggressive-Moment Statistics.
    15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment (APTE), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. Oral presentation.
  2. Park, H., Oh, T., Lim, J., & Kim, I.*
    Micromobility Safety Challenges: A Study on Drivers Overtaking Bicycles and E-Scooters according to Road Conditions and Cross-Modal Experience.
    The 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2025. Oral presentation.†
    † Received 2025 TRB Outstanding Paper Award.
  3. Park, H., Oh, T., Lim, J., & Kim, I.*
    Micro Mobility Safety Challenges: A Study on Drivers Overtaking Bicycles and E-Scooters in Relation to Road Conditions and Prior Riding Experience.
    36th ICTCT Conference, the Hague, Netherlands, 2024. Oral presentation.
  4. Lim, J., Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.*
    The Impact of Information Delivery Systems in Tunnels Depending on Lighting Intensity and Speed Limit.
    The 103rd TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2024. Poster session.
  5. Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.*
    Effects of Driver's Braking Response by the Real-Time Pedestrian Scale Warning System.
    The 102nd TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2023. Poster session.
  6. Park, H., Oh, T., & Kim, I.*
    Validation of Spatial Orientation Skill using Virtual Reality Treadmill.
    ITS World Congress 2022, Los Angeles, USA, 2022. Oral presentation.

Invited talks

  1. Park, H.
    Building an LLM-Powered Wiki for Researchers: Toward Automated Knowledge Curation in Research Workflows.
    Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) AI Agent Seminar, Jun. 2026.

Research grants

Honors and awards