Professor
JINKYU KANG
Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
College of ICT Convergence
Myongji University
116 Myongji-ro, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 17058, KOREA
Phone: (+82) - 31 - 330 - 6774
Office: Y5624
E-mail: jkkang.at.mju.ac.kr
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jkkang
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0M6rNgMAAAAJ&hl=ko
Education
Mar. 2011– Feb. 2015 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Cooperative multi-cell networks with limited backhaul and imperfect channel knowledge
Mar. 2009 – Feb. 2011 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Multiuser MIMO downlink with linear precoding for full multiplexing gain
Mar. 2005 – Feb. 2009 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Communication Engineering
Research Interests
Signal Processing, Optimization, and Applications
UAV, mobile cloud computing, navigation/localization/communications in cloud-based networks, localization in body area networks
(massive MIMO, mmWave, IoT)
Machine learning/Deep learning
Functional MRI preprocessing, brain activation & functional connectivity modeling, learning-based interference modeling & mitigation
Work & Research Experiences
Sep. 2017– Aug. 2020 Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea
Staff Engineer of Standards Research Team of Next Generation Communications Research Center
<Project>
Beyond 5G Standardization - Coverage enhancement, V2X (Vehicular-to-Everything), NTN (non-Terrestrial network)
Mar. 2016 – Aug. 2017 Harvard university, Boston, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Vahid Tarokh)
<Project>
Dictionary learning and Motion correction for free‐breathing myocardial MRI image (in collaboration with Harvard medical school & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
Mar. 2015 – Feb. 2016 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Joonhyuk Kang)
<Project>
Cloud-RAN systems with imperfect channel state information (in collaboration with New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2013 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Visiting scholar of Center for Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Research (Advisor: Prof. Osvaldo Simeone)
<Project>
Joint signal and channel state information compression for C-RAN system
Short Biography
Jinkyu Kang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical communications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in elec- trical engineering from the Korea Advanced Insti- tute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, respectively, in 2009, 2011, and 2015, respectively. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technol- ogy, Newark, NJ, USA, and he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electron- ics Research Institute, KAIST, from 2015 to 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Senior Engineer of Standards Research Team of Next-generation Communications Research Center of Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea, where he worked on 5G standardization for 3GPP. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electronics Research Institute of KAIST. He was also a PostDoctoral Research Fellow with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. His research interests include wireless communication, signal processing for cooperative communication, and information theory.