Jaimie (Jaimyoung) Kwon

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA 94542

Office: Science North 318
Phone: 510-885-3447
Fax: 510-885-4714
e-mail: jaimyoung.kwon at csueastbay dot edu

Research Interest

Large and complex data, Graphical model, Computational statistics,
Time/spatial statistics, especially with application to transportation science,
Bioinformatics, General application of statistics to sciences and engineering,
Teaching on Statistical Consulting.

CV / curriculum vitae (in pdf); A short bio (html)


Classes

Blackboard; School Schedule; Past Classes: Introduction to Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, Categorical Data Analysis with Generalized Linear Models, Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Advanced Statistical Computing


Personal & Photos

Some Photos of my family; I read New York Times and the Book daily; Proud sponsor of NPR  and Compassion International.

My software environment for computational/applied statistics


Partial List of Publications

Application of statistics to transportation, including PeMS and ETC tag data analysis (joint with Prof. Pravin Varaiya of UC Berkeley and Dr. Karl Petty of Berkeley Transportation Systems; 1999~ current)

Publications

Kwon, J. and Varaiya, P., (2008) "Effectiveness of California's High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) system," Transportation Research Part C , 16 (1), pp. 98-115.

Bickel, P.J., Chen, C., Kwon, J., Rice, J., van Zwet, E., Varaiya, P., (2007) "Measuring Traffic." Statistical Science , Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 581-597.

Kwon, J., Petty, K., Shieh, E., Kopelias, P., and Papandreou, K. (2008) "Automatic Method for Imputing and Balancing Link Traffic Counts," In TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Kwon, J., Petty, K., Kopelias, P., and Papadimitriou, F. (2008) "Empirical Modeling of the Effect of Incidents on Congestion and Travel Time Prediction: Case Study of Attica Tollway in Athens, Greece," In TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Gomes, G., Horowitz, R., Kurzhanskiy, A.A., Varaiya, P. and J. Kwon. (2008) "Behavior of the Cell Transmission Model and Effectiveness of Ramp Metering." Forthcoming in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

Kwon, J., Petty, K. and Varaiya, P. (2007) "Probe Vehicle Runs or Loop Detectors? Effect of Detector Spacing and Sample Size on the Accuracy of Freeway Congestion Monitoring," Forthcoming Transportation Research Record . [pdf]

Kwon, J., Mauch, M. and Varaiya, P. (2006) "Components of Congestion: Delay from Incidents, Special Events, Lane Closures, Weather, Potential Ramp Metering Gain, and Excess Demand," Transportation Research Record no. 1959, Transportation Research Board, pp. 84-91. [pdf]

Chen, C., Varaiya, P. and Kwon, J. (2005) "An Empirical Assessment of Traffic Operations." In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (15th ISTTT, Maryland, US), Pergamon, New York, 2005. [pdf]

Kwon, J. and Varaiya, P. (2005) "Real-Time Estimation of Origin-Destination (O-D) Matrices with Partial Trajectories from Electronic Toll Collection Tag Data," Transportation Research Record no. 1923, Transportation Research Board, pp. 119-126.[pdf]

Kwon, J. and Petty, K. (2005) "A Travel Time Prediction Algorithm Scalable to Freeway Networks with Many Nodes with Arbitrary Travel Routes," Transportation Research Record no. 1935, Transportation Research Board, pp. 147-153. [pdf]

Choi, I.-G., Kwon, J. and Kim, S.-H., (2004) "Local feature frequency profile: A method to measure structural similarity in proteins," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 101, No. 11, pp. 3797-3802. [Abstract and link to pdf]

Kwon, J., Chen, C. and Varaiya, P. (2004) "Statistical Methods for Detecting Spatial Configuration Errors in Traffic Surveillance Sensors," Transportation Research Record no. 1870, Transportation Research Board, pp. 124-132. [pdf]

Bickel, P.J., Chen, C., Kwon, J., Rice, J., Varaiya, P. and van Zwet, E. (2003). "Traffic Flow on a Freeway Network," in Denison, D.D. et al. (Eds.) Nonlinear Estimation and Classification, New York, Springer. [pdf]

Kwon, J., Varaiya, P. and Skabardonis, A. (2003) "Estimation of Truck Traffic Volume from Single Loop Detector Outputs Using Lane-to-lane Speed Correlation,"Transportation Research Record no. 1856, Transportation Research Board, pp. 106-117. [pdf] (Also available as California PATH working paper,1055-1417 ;UCB-ITS-PWP-2003-11.)

Chen, C., Kwon, J., Rice, J., Skabardonis, A. and Varaiya, P. (2003) "Detecting errors and imputing missing data for single loop surveillance systems," Transportation Research Record no. 1855, Transportation Research Board, pp. 160-167. [pdf]

Petty, K., Ostland, M., Kwon, J., Rice, J. and Bickel, P. (2002) "A New Methodology for Evaluating Incident Detection Algorithms," Transportation Research, Part C, Volume 10, pp.189-204. [pdf]

Kwon, J., Min, K., Bickel, P. J. and Renne, P. R. (2002). "Statistical methods for jointly estimating decay constant of $K^{40}$ and age of a dating standard," Mathematical Geology, Volume 34, Number 4 . [pdf]

Kwon, J., Coifman, B., and Bickel, P., (2000). "Day-to-Day Travel Time Trends and Travel Time Prediction from Loop Detector Data," Transportation Research Record no. 1717, Transportation Research Board, pp. 120-129. [pdf]

Bickel, P.J. and Kwon, J. (2001). "Inference for Semiparametric Models: Some Current Frontiers (with Discussion)," Statistical Sinica Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 863-960. [pdf (paper), pdf (response)]

Selected Presentations

Kwon, J., Petty, K., Morris, B. and Shieh, E. (2005) "Practical Use of ADUS for Real-Time Routing and Travel Time Prediction," Presented and Published in 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, November 6-10, 2005. [pdf]

Kwon, J., Dundar, B. and Varaiya, P. (2004) "Hybrid Algorithm for Indoor Positioning Using Wireless LAN," Presented at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2004-Fall, September 26-29, 2004. [pdf]

Other papers and writings

Kwon, J. and Varaiya, P. (2006) "Effectiveness of California's High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) System" July 2006. [pdf]

Kwon, J. and Varaiya, P. (2005) "Effectiveness of high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area" July 2005. [pdf]

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