About Hyeonsup Lim
Hyeonsup Lim was born and raised in Suncheon, a small village in Jeollanam-do province of S. Korea. He earned Bachelor’s degree in transportation system engineering from Ajou University in 2008, with honors, and Master’s degree in urban planning from Seoul National University in 2010. Before he joined the University of Tennessee (UT) in 2013, he worked at Seoul Institute, a government agency in transportation research, and Smart Card Co., Ltd., a private company in implementing transit-oriented ITS. In May 2017, he was granted a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering with concentration in Transportation Engineering and his Master’s degree in Statistics at UT.
For his four years of Ph.D. program, Hyeonsup was recipient of the Chancellor’s scholarship in UT. He worked on multiple projects in UT, developing integrated traffic simulation algorithm and real-time traffic data extraction tool, and enhancing self-learning license plate matching algorithm. He also has been working on building public information of nationwide freight movements at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During his graduate studies, Hyeonsup received several scholarships and awards, including Intelligent Transportation Society of Tennessee’s annual scholarship award (first recipient in UT), T. Darcy Sullivan TSITE student scholarship, TSITE Student paper competition award, KOTAA Excellent paper awards, and Graduate Student Senate travel awards. He also served as the president of ITE student chapter at UT. His research interests include connected/autonomous vehicle, machine learning, traffic flow theory, and freight logistics.