PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Inhi Kim

Also known as 김인희

Inhi Kim is a transport researcher at KAIST who applies traffic simulation and generative AI to mobility, including Physical AI. After studying at Kongju National University, he worked from 2007 to 2012 as a transportation engineer, planner and software developer at PTV Group and earned a PhD in civil engineering at the University of Queensland in 2014. A lecturer at Monash University from 2015 and a senior lecturer from 2019, he became an associate professor at Kongju National University in 2020 and joined KAIST's Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility in 2023. In 2021, he coauthored a Traffic4cast paper on city-wide traffic prediction with 3DResNet and Sparse-UNet models, and a 2025 video showed a tele-driving experiment by Dochack, a startup he founded. He is an associate professor at KAIST and an adjunct professor at the KAIST AI College, and a team he co-leads was selected in 2026 for a Physical AI talent program with Lotte Innovate.

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  1. 2005–2012

    Kongju degrees and PTV Group

    He earns a bachelor's degree in 2005 and a master's degree in urban and transportation engineering in 2007, both at Kongju National University in Korea. From August 2007 to January 2012, he works for the German transport software company PTV Group as a transportation engineer, planner and software developer.

  2. 2014

    A Queensland doctorate

    He completes a PhD in civil engineering at the University of Queensland in 2014. His thesis topic is the three most promising low-cost interventions for improving safety at railway crossings, studied with the CARRS-Q driving simulator and Vissim traffic simulation.

  3. 2015–2020

    Lecturer at Monash University

    He joins the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne as a lecturer in 2015 and becomes a senior lecturer in 2019. His post supports the Master of Transportation Systems at the Southeast University Monash University Joint Graduate School in Suzhou, China.

  4. 2020–2022

    Associate professor at Kongju

    He holds an associate professorship in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kongju National University from September 2020 to December 2022. In September 2020, he also becomes an adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University.

  5. 2021

    Traffic4cast with 3DResNet

    In 2021, he coauthors a paper with Bo Wang, Reza Mohajerpoor, Chen Cai and Hai L. Vu for the IARAI Traffic4cast 2021 competition on predicting city-wide traffic states. The paper tests 3DResNet and Sparse-UNet models for forecasting traffic speed and flow, and both achieve much better performance than the baseline algorithms.

  6. 2023–2024

    Associate professor at KAIST

    He joins the Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility at KAIST as an associate professor in 2023. In September 2024, he also takes an adjunct post at New York University.

  7. 2025

    Tele-driving and PTV training

    A video posted in March 2025 shows a tele-driving experiment by Dochack, a startup he founded, in which a simulator at KAIST's Munji campus operates a vehicle at the Jeju Techno Park. In August 2025, he and two KAIST colleagues become Korea's first PTV Certified Trainers, able to give official PTV software training at KAIST.

  8. As of October 2026

    Physical AI at KAIST

    He is an associate professor at KAIST's Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility and an adjunct professor at the KAIST AI College, where his core AI competencies include generative AI, foundation models, and reinforcement learning and control. His TUPA lab uses LLMs and deep generative models to build synthetic populations and activity schedules for network-level traffic simulation. In May 2026, a team he co-leads is selected for a 2026 generative AI talent program hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and IITP, spearheading Physical AI talent development with Lotte Innovate from April 2026 to December 2029.

Career

  1. Since 2023KAISTAssociate Professor
  2. From 2024New York University
  3. 2020–2022Kongju National UniversityAssociate Professor
  4. 2015–2022Monash UniversityLecturer, Senior Lecturer
  5. 2007–2012PTV GroupTransportation engineer, planner and software developer
  6. DochackFounder

Education

  1. 2014University of QueenslandPhD
  2. 2007Kongju National UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 2005Kongju National UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes KAIST. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes KAIST. We estimate how 26,439 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs, nonprofits and government research centers, with decade counts, net flows and the top paths.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. 김인희 - KAIST 조천식모빌리티대학원 mo.kaist.ac.kr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Inhi Kim - Public Transport Research Group publictransportresearchgroup.info. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Traffic4cast -- Large-scale Traffic Prediction using 3DResNet and Sparse-UNet arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. People | TUPA @ KAIST inhi.kim. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Tele Driving Daejeon-jeju by Dochack Co. & Prof. Inhi Kim - KAIST 조천식모빌리티대학원 mo.kaist.ac.kr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. PTV Certified Trainers at KAIST | TUPA @ KAIST inhi.kim. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Faculty | AX aicollege.kaist.ac.kr. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. TUPA — Transport and Urban Planning with AI | KAIST inhi.kim. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. New Grant from IITP | TUPA @ KAIST inhi.kim. Checked 21 October 2026.