Wooyong Han

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

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Wooyong Han is a leading researcher in autonomous vehicle systems, with a career dedicated to making self-driving cars safer, smarter, and more cooperative. His work centers on three critical pillars of autonomous driving: vehicle/driver cooperation, collision avoidance, and probabilistic situation assessment. Han’s most impactful contribution is the "Co-Pilot Agent," a core block within ETRI’s Co-Pilot project that enables automated vehicles to cooperate with human drivers and interact with other road users while obeying traffic rules—a concept that has garnered 31 citations. He further advanced on-road safety with a novel collision avoidance method that divides road maps into six lane-level risk regions, earning 22 citations for its practical approach to navigation. Han also pioneered high-level data fusion techniques for probabilistic situation assessment, allowing automated systems to evaluate complex traffic scenarios and recommend driving behaviors (15 citations). His work bridges the gap between human-driven and fully autonomous vehicles, addressing the real-world challenge of trust and safety in mixed-traffic environments. For students and researchers, Han’s research offers a blueprint for developing cooperative, collision-free autonomous systems that prioritize human-machine collaboration.