Kyungtae (KT) Han
Senior Principal Researcher
Toyota Motor North America
Generative & Agentic AI · V2X / CAV · Edge AI · Digital Twin
I am a Senior Principal Researcher at Toyota Motor North America's InfoTech Labs, focusing on generative and agentic AI for connected and autonomous vehicles. My work spans multimodal driving intelligence, V2X-enabled cooperative autonomy, and AI-native mobilty systems, with 90+ peer-reviewed publications and 100+ U.S. patents. I serve as Associate Editor of the SAE Journal of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and am author of the IEEE-Wiley book Generative AI for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (2026).
Research
Research Agenda
My research builds AI systems for safety-critical mobility, combining rigorous learning methods with real-world deployability.
Generative & Agentic AI for Driving Intelligence
Multimodal models and agent-based systems for scene understanding, conversational ADAS, and driving decision support.
Explore →Connected & Cooperative Autonomous Systems (V2X/CAV)
Communication-aware perception and planning for robust coordination across vehicles, infrastructure, and traffic networks.
Explore →Edge AI for Safety-Critical Mobility
Real-time inference, intelligent task distribution, and efficient deployment for latency- and reliability-constrained mobility systems.
Explore →Digital Twins for Connected & Personalized Mobility
Mobility and driver digital twin architectures for cooperative perception, behavior modeling, and human-centered driver assistance.
Explore →Also see: Intelligent Transportation · Energy-Efficient Computing
Publications
Selected Publications
Representative work across generative AI, autonomous driving, and edge intelligence.
LLM4AD: Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving
C. Cui, Y. Ma, S. Park, … K. Han, and Z. Wang.
View paper →Scene-Aware Conversational ADAS with Generative AI for Real-Time Driver Assistance
K. Han, Y. Chen, R. Gupta, and O. Altintas.
View paper →NuPlanQA: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Multi-View Driving Scene Understanding
S. Park, C. Cui, Y. Ma, … K. Han, and Z. Wang.
View paper →Mobility Digital Twin: Concept, Architecture, Case Study, and Future Challenges
Z. Wang, R. Gupta, K. Han, H. Wang, A. Ganlath, N. Ammar, and P. Tiwari.
View paper →Driver Digital Twin for Online Recognition of Distracted Driving Behaviors
Y. Ma, R. Du, A. Abdelraouf, K. Han, R. Gupta, and Z. Wang.
View paper →Teaching
Teaching & Curriculum Development
Graduate-level course design and instructional development in AI for mobility systems.
Generative AI for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
An advanced course on foundation models, multimodal reasoning, agent orchestration, and deployment constraints for CAV systems.
- Developed and taught as an advanced internal research training course at Toyota Motor North America's InfoTech Labs, with strong participant feedback.
- Topics: Transformer architecture, prompt engineering, function calling, retrieval-augmented generation, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, RLHF, GRPO), agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen), vision-language models, and MCP / agent-to-agent protocols, with CAV-specific case studies and hands-on labs.
- Curriculum directly informs the IEEE-Wiley textbook, Generative AI for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (2026).
News
Recent News
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May 2026
Paper accepted at IEEE ITSC 2026: “Tonic Meta-Control for Adaptive Safety-Compute Allocation via Persistent Vigilance Dynamics.”
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Apr 2026
Paper published in Proceedings of the IEEE: “LLM4AD: Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving.”
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2026
Companion site for the IEEE-Wiley book Generative AI for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles is now available, with hands-on labs and instructor resources. Book webpage →
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Spring 2026
Continuing internal course on Generative AI for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (Toyota InfoTech Labs).
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2025
Papers accepted at IEEE ITSC and ICCV with multi-institution academic collaborators.
Contact
Get in Touch
Reach out for research collaborations, joint workshops, or questions about my work.
- kt.han@toyota.com
- Location
- Mountain View, California
- Affiliation
- Toyota Motor North America