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Dr. Kang is Faculty Research Associate and Adjunct Professor of the Civil Engineering Department at the Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA in which he is teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, actively conducting externally-funded research projects, and supervising students. He is a primary researcher in the department’s Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER). 

Dr. Kang obtained Ph.D. (2008) and M.S. (2007) degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Engineering focus) from the University of Maryland–College Park. He obtained another M.S. (2003) and B.S. (2001) degrees in Transportation System Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea.

Dr. Kang’s research interests are in:

· Route optimization for highways, railway, and military path planning;

· Traffic safety and accident analysis;

· GIS application for transportation system evaluation;

· Traffic control and operation;

· Transportation infrastructure planning and decision analysis.

He has expertise in quantitative methods in transportation engineering such as, artificial intelligent (AI)-based optimization techniques, network-based representation, and linear programming. He also has experience in traffic control and safety studies involving signal timing, ramp metering, intersection delay and queue modeling.

Since his Ph.D. work at the University of Maryland, College Park, Dr. Kang has been involved in various research and research & development (R&D) projects funded by state and federal agencies. The key sponsoring agencies of his research projects include U.S. Department of Defense, National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and State Highway Administration (SHA) of Maryland Department of Transportation. He has authored (or co-authored) more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters in the transportation engineering and optimization literature. He has also completed many government-funded research projects until now.

Dr. Kang is Faculty Research Associate and Adjunct Professor of the Civil Engineering Department at the Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA in which he is teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, actively conducting externally-funded research projects, and supervising students. He is a primary researcher in the department’s Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER).