Seok-Hwan Park
Contact Information
Address: 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 54896 Republic of Korea
Office: 516, 7th Engineering Building (7공학관 516호)
Ph: +82-63-270-2357
E-mail: seokhwan@jbnu.ac.kr, seokhwan81@gmail.com
Work Experience
2024.3 - Present
Professor, Division of Electronic Engineering, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Jeonju, Korea
2024.8 - 2025.7
Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
(Host: Prof. Wei Yu)
2015.4 - 2024.2
Assistant/Associate Professor, Division of Electronic Engineering, JBNU, Jeonju, Korea
2014.3 - 2015.3
Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea
2012.2 - 2014.2
Postdoctoral Research Associate, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA
(Advisor: Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, co-advisor: Prof. Shlomo Shamai)
2011.1 - 2012.1
Research Engineer, Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Daejeon, Korea
Education
2011.2, Ph.D. in EE, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
(Advisor: Prof. Inkyu Lee)
2005.2, B.Sc. in EE, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Academic Activity and Professional Service
Senior Member, IEEE
Founding Member, IEEE ComSoc WTC SIG on RSMA
Editor
- Associate Editor, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Nov. 2024-present
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Dec. 2022-present
- Publication Board Member, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), 2021-2022
Organizer
- Co-Organizer, IEEE ICC 2022 workshop on "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G"
TPC
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2026, Glasgow, UK
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2025, Taipei, Taiwan
- TPC Member, IEEE PIMRC 2025, Istanbul, Türkiye
- TPC Member, IEEE VTC 2025 Spring, Oslo, Norway
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2025, Milan, Italy
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2025, Osaka, Japan
- TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2024, Cape Town, South Africa
- TPC Member, IEEE VTC 2024 Fall, Washington DC, USA
- TPC Member, IEEE PIMRC 2024, Valencia, Spain
- TPC Member, IEEE VTC 2024 Spring, Singapore
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2024, Surabaya, Indonesia
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, USA
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2024, Dubai, UAE
- TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- TPC Member, IEEE VTC 2023 Fall, Hong Kong
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2023, Sydney, Australia
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, Scotland
- TPC Track Co-Chair, IEEE VTC 2022 Fall, London/Beijing, UK/China
- TPC Member, IEEE VTC 2022 Spring, Helsinki, Finland
- TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, Korea
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2022, Austin, TX, USA
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2022, Jeju, Korea
- TPC Member, AI Frontiers Summit 2022, Seoul, Korea
- TPC Member, IEEE Globecom 2021, Madrid, Spain
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2021, Montreal, Canada
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2021, Nanjing, China
- TPC Member, AI Frontiers Summit 2021, Seoul, Korea
- TPC Member, IEEE PIMRC 2020, London, UK
- TPC Member, IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland
- TPC Vice Co-Chair, ICCE-Asia 2020, Seoul, Korea
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2020, Seoul, Korea
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2019, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2019, Marrakech, Morocco
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2018, Ningbo, China
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Spain
- TPC Member, IEEE APCC 2017, Perth, Australia
- TPC Member, IEEE WCNC 2017, San Francisco, CA, USA
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
- IEEE Transactions on Green Communicationsand Networking
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE Communications Letters
- IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- IEEE Systems Journal
Invited talks
- "Hybrid TDMA-NOMA-Cooperative Transmission for Collaborative Multi-UAV Sensing and Data Collection," Workshop on Sensing, Coding, and Communications, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Jun. 2025 (Host: Prof. Wei Yu).
- "Recent research highlights from CommSigLab," Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2024 (Host: Prof. Wan Choi).
- "Generalized reduced-WMMSE algorithm for cooperative beamforming in cell-free massive MIMO systems," Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea, Mar. 2024 (Host: Prof. Kyoung-Jae Lee).
- "Efficient beamforming optimization: Deep learning and reduced-WMMSE," Myongji University, Yongin, Korea, Jan. 2024 (Host: Prof. Jinkyu Kang).
- "Deep learning techniques for multi-access interference control: SIC detection and beamforming," Korea National University of Transportation, online, Nov. 2023 (Host: Prof. Changick Song).
- "Convergence of wireless communication and deep learning: Exploring beamforming optimization," Digital ESG of KICS, online, Nov. 2023 (link).
- "Deep learning applied to bemforming optimization in multi-user downlink," Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Jan. 2023 (Host: Prof. Inkyu Lee).
- "Deep learning applications for beamforming optimization," Seminar on State-of-The-Art Technology for 5G, ETRI-HRC & Chonnam National University, online, Nov. 2022 (Host: Prof. Hosung Park).
- "Learning beamforming optimization with deep learning," 2021 Data, Network, and AI (DNA) Workshop, OSIA, online, Mar. 2021.
- "Deep learning methods for universal MISO beamforming," 2020 POSTECH Wireless Summit, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, Jul. 2020 (Host: Prof. Namyoon Lee).
- "Optimization of cloud and edge signal processing strategies for C-RAN/F-RAN," Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Oct. 2018 (Host: Prof. Bang Chul Jung).
- "Introduction to 5G - Backgrounds, mmWave, massive MIMO and cloud-RAN," Kyungil University, Daegu, Korea, Jun. 2018 (Prof. Kyu-Sung Hwang).
- "Joint design of digital and analog processing for cloud radio access networks," King's College London, London, UK, Apr. 2018 (Host: Prof. Osvaldo Simeone).
- "Uplink sum-rate analysis of C-RAN with interconnected radio units," Technion, Haifa, Israel, Dec. 2017 (Host: Prof. Shlomo Shamai).
- "Introduction to 5G: Requirements and key technological components," Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Korea, Aug. 2017 (Host: Prof. Changick Song).
- "Optimization of cloud and edge signal processing strategies for C-RAN/F-RAN," Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 2017 (Host: Prof. Joongheon Kim).
- "Fronthaul compression techniques for cloud radio access networks," POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, Nov. 2016 (Host: Prof. Namyoon Lee).
- "Joint optimization of cloud and edge processing for fog radio access networks," National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Apr. 2016 (Host: Prof. Stefano Rini).
- "Fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks," Korea University, Seoul, Korea, May 2015 (Host: Prof. Inkyu Lee).
- "Fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks," Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea, May 2015 (Host: Prof. Kyoung-Jae Lee).
- "Interference management via distributed beamforming and joint processing in multi-cell MIMO networks," Alcatel-Lucent, Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 2014.
Honors and Awards
Best TPC Member, International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC) 2024, Jeju, Korea.
Best Reviewer Award, ICT Express, 2024.
Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022.
Excellent teaching award, JBNU, 2019 (link).
Best paper award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2006, Busan, Korea (for this paper).
Project Experience
Research staff, AI-Powered Drone Detection System Based on Spectrum Sensing for Multi-ISM Band Operation with Direction and Range Estimation to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Radars
Sponsor: Jeonbuk State (JB Rise Research Cluster)
Period: 2025.06-2029.12
Principal investigator, AI-Powered Cell-Free Ultra-Massive MIMO System on Open-RAN Architecture
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2023.06-2026.02
Principal investigator, Application of Graph Neural Networks to Scalable Beamforming Design With Respect to Network Size
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2022.04-2022.11
Principal investigator, Deep Learning Based Cooperative Beamforming Design for Wireless Interference Management
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2021.03-2021.11
Principal investigator, Deep Learning Based Optimization of Wireless Communication Strategy for Federated Machine Learning Over Large-Scale Cloud/Fog Networks
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2021.03-2024.02
Principal investigator, Machine Learning Applied to Beamforming Optimization in Wireless Interference Networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2020.03-2020.11
Research staff, Development of Artificial Intelligence and Robot Technologies for Unmanned Farming
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2019.06-2028.02
Principal investigator, Inter-layer and inter-tenant joint optimization of hierarchical Fog-RAN systems with spectrum pooling
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2018.06-2021.05
Principal investigator, Wireless caching for ultra-dense networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2018.08-2018.11
Principal investigator, Joint design of massive millimeter-wave beamforming and fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2015.11-2018.10
Principal investigator, Simultaneous information and power transfer for cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: Korea University (고려대)
Period: 2017.03-2018.02
Principal investigator, High-throughput MIMO transmission for the uplink of cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2017.05-2017.11
Principal investigator, Research on multiple-antenna techniques for multi-hop communication networks in disaster relief communication systems
Sponsor: Korea University (고려대)
Period: 2015.11-2016.10
Research staff, Full-duplex communications based on massive MIMO for next generation wireless backhaul systems
Sponsor: Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP)
Period: 2015.11 - 2016.04
Principal investigator, Signal processing optimization for enhanced physical-layer security in cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: Jeonbuk National University (전북대)
Period: 2015.05 - 2016.02
Research staff, Delay-tolerant robust coding for green networking with backhaul constraint
Sponsor: InterDigital Inc.
Period: 2012.02 - 2014.02
Research staff, Efficient transceiver design with limited feedback for network MIMO downlink
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2009.12 - 2010.08
Research staff, Interference alignment techniques for wireless interference channels
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2008.11 - 2009.10
Research staff, Closed-loop MIMO systems with minimal feedback for WiBro
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics
Period: 2006.06 - 2008.11
Research staff, 4th generation wireless system design for nomadic system
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2005.03 - 2005.12