Bumsik Kim, Ph.D.

TTI Associate Research Scientist

Education

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2021
• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, 2017

Short Biography

Dr. Kim is an Associate Research Scientist and Assistant Program Manager in the Environmental Modeling Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). He earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA, in 2021, following a master’s degree in the same field from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, in 2017. Before his academic pursuits in the United States, Dr. Kim worked as a transportation researcher at the Seoul Institute, a leading research institute supporting the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea.

Dr. Kim’s research spans a broad array of topics, including air quality and emissions, automated and connected vehicles, highway operations, and transportation planning. His expertise includes stakeholder engagement with State DOTs and MPOs, transportation modeling (MOVES, VISSIM, EMME), statistical analysis (MATLAB, R), data processing (Python, C++, Visual Basic), geoprocessing (ArcGIS), and interactive visualization (Power BI, Tableau). Additionally, he has extensive experience working with large transportation datasets, such as the National Household Travel Survey, vehicle trajectory data (e.g., HighD, Wejo), the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study, and aviation demand data from OAG.