Eunyoung Jang is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences (Urban Studies) at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research lies at the intersection of smart urbanism, digital governance, urban mobility, and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in how technological transformations reshape contemporary forms of urban governance.

Her doctoral research examines how data, AI, and digital infrastructures are reshaping urban mobility and the governance of smart mobility transitions, with Basel as the principal empirical context. She is particularly interested in how mobility data are produced, circulated, and mobilised in urban decision-making. Her work asks how data-driven infrastructures reconfigure authority, accountability, and urban citizenship, and, more broadly, how global models of smart and data-driven urban development are translated into locally specific political and institutional contexts.

Prior to her PhD at the University of Basel, Eunyoung studied Political Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her previous research examined smart-city development and urban mobility policy across European and Asian countries, focusing on how data-driven urban technologies converge while governance, implementation, and citizen participation diverge across different urban contexts. She also worked on locally embedded mobility policies, including sustainable mobility and digital mobility infrastructures.

Drawing on political science, urban studies, and digital society research, her work connects technology, mobility, infrastructure, governance, and citizenship. A central concern across her research is how technological systems become embedded in urban institutions and everyday practices, and how this shapes the relationship between cities, infrastructures, and their inhabitants.

• Smart cities, digital urbanism, and urban data/AI governance
• Smart mobility and urban mobility policy
• Urban data and mobility infrastructures
• Platform governance and technology-driven urban transformation
• Comparative urban studies, governance, and citizenship

• Switzerland, particularly Basel
• Germany, particularly Berlin
• South Korea, particularly Seoul and Songdo
• Comparative urban contexts across Europe and East Asia