Hyun-A Park

Hyun-A Park is a nationally recognized leader in transportation research, with more than 17 publications. She recently served as Chair of the Technical Activities Council of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, she led a team of group and section chairs overseeing more than 200 committees and 6,000 volunteers engaged in multimodal transportation research across a broad range of topics. She also co-chaired the Women’s Transportation Seminar Public Art Project, which resulted in the installation of Network, a public art piece at Boston’s South Station.

She is President of Spy Pond Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting firm specializing in transportation performance, planning, and asset management. She began her career working with MIT Professor Tunney Lee at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations, and later contributed to the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (“Big Dig”) in Boston. She then joined Cambridge Systematics, where she led the firm’s business line in transportation asset management and decision support.

Hyun-A earned her Bachelors and Masters in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is a member of the MIT Corporation and serves on its Governance and Nominations Committee. She also serves on the MIT visiting committees for Departments of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.