Speaker
MOON Young-Jun
Affliation
The Korea Transport Institute
Title
Senior Researcher
Session

Biography

Dr. Young-Jun MOON is the chief director of the Dept of National Transport Technology R&D in the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI). He joined KOTI in 1998, right after he had graduated from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a doctoral degree in Transportation Engineering in the Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He started his career as a research engineer in the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) in 1987, developing the Korean Surface to Air Missile (KSAM) for military weapon systems. He participated in the ITS World Congress and the International Standards Organization in the ITS area as a leader of ITS R&D in Korea from 1999, developing a variety of ITS projects. Since then, he has been involved in ISO/TC204 as a Convenor of WG17 for nomadic & portable devices. He has been a member of the international program committee (IPC) of ITS World Congress since 2005 and also a chair of IPC for the 17th ITS World Congress in Busan, 2010. He has been a committee member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on ITS since 2013. He became a member of the National Science and Technology Commission (NSTC) under the President's House in 2010 until 2013, and a chair of the Construction & Transportation Committee. He has also been a consulting director of the transportation division in the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Organizing Committee since 2010. He is now designated as an Advisory Director to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MoLIT) from 2016 until 2017.