Daun Jang is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cadet Training at Mokpo National Maritime University (MMU), Republic of Korea, and has served as Captain of the university’s training ship SEGERO since 2025. Dr. Jang received a bachelor’s degree from the Division of Maritime Transportation System at MMU and master’s and doctoral degrees in Maritime Safety Systems from the MMU Graduate School. Before joining the faculty in 2023, Dr. Jang served at sea with Hyundai Merchant Marine (now HMM) and Hyundai LNG Shipping from 2010 to 2015, attaining the rank of Chief Officer, and then as a navigation officer aboard the MMU training ships from 2015 to 2022. Research interests include navigation science, maritime traffic engineering and data analysis, and ship route generation, with recent work on electronic chart-based map space modeling, DBSCAN-based analysis of maritime traffic behaviors, and COLREGs-compliant path planning and collision avoidance for maritime autonomous surface ships. Dr. Jang has authored the textbooks Practical VTS Communication and IMO SMCP Guidebook for Maritime Communication, and currently serves as Editorial Director of the Korean Society of Marine Traffic, Director of Planning of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety, and Director of Research of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research.