Professor
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
Work Experience
2024.7 - Present
Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (U of T), Toronto, ON, Canada2024.3 - Present
Professor, Division of Electronic Engineering, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Jeonju, Korea2015.4 - 2024.2
Assistant/Associate Professor, Division of Electronic Engineering, JBNU, Jeonju, Korea2014.3 - 2015.3
Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea2012.2 - 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, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Dec. 2022-present
- Publication Board Member, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), 2021-2022Organizer
- Co-Organizer, IEEE ICC 2022 workshop on "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G"TPC
- 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, USAReviewer
- 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 JournalInvited talks
- "Recent research highlights from CommSigLab," Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2024.
- "Generalized reduced-WMMSE algorithm for cooperative beamforming in cell-free massive MIMO systems," Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea, Mar. 2024.
- "Efficient beamforming optimization: Deep learning and reduced-WMMSE," Myongji University, Yongin, Korea, Jan. 2024.
- "Deep learning techniques for multi-access interference control: SIC detection and beamforming," Korea National University of Transportation, online, Nov. 2023.
- "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.
- "Deep learning applications for beamforming optimization," Seminar on State-of-The-Art Technology for 5G, ETRI-HRC & Chonnam National University, online, Nov. 2022.
- "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.
- "Optimization of cloud and edge signal processing strategies for C-RAN/F-RAN," Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Oct. 2018.
- "Introduction to 5G - Backgrounds, mmWave, massive MIMO and cloud-RAN," Kyungil University, Daegu, Korea, Jun. 2018.
- "Joint design of digital and analog processing for cloud radio access networks," King's College London, London, UK, Apr. 2018.
- "Uplink sum-rate analysis of C-RAN with interconnected radio units," Technion, Haifa, Israel, Dec. 2017.
- "Introduction to 5G: Requirements and key technological components," Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, Korea, Aug. 2017.
- "Optimization of cloud and edge signal processing strategies for C-RAN/F-RAN," Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 2017.
- "Fronthaul compression techniques for cloud radio access networks," POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, Nov. 2016.
- "Joint optimization of cloud and edge processing for fog radio access networks," National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Apr. 2016.
- "Fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks," Korea University, Seoul, Korea, May 2015.
- "Fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks," Hanbat National University, Daejeon, Korea, May 2015.
- "Interference management via distributed beamforming and joint processing in multi-cell MIMO networks," Alcatel-Lucent, Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 2014.
Honors and Awards
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
AI-Powered Cell-Free Ultra-Massive MIMO System on Open-RAN Architecture
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2023.06-2026.02Principal investigator, Application of Graph Neural Networks to Scalable Beamforming Design With Respect to Network Size
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2022.04-2022.11Principal investigator, Deep Learning Based Cooperative Beamforming Design for Wireless Interference Management
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2021.03-2021.11Principal investigator, Deep Learning Based Optimization of Wireless Communication Strategy for Federated Machine Learning Over Large-Scale Cloud/Fog Networks
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2021.03-2024.02Principal investigator, Machine Learning Applied to Beamforming Optimization in Wireless Interference Networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2020.03-2020.11Research staff, Development of Artificial Intelligence and Robot Technologies for Unmanned Farming
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2019.06-2025.02Principal investigator, Inter-layer and inter-tenant joint optimization of hierarchical Fog-RAN systems with spectrum pooling
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2018.06-2021.05Principal investigator, Wireless caching for ultra-dense networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2018.08-2018.11Principal investigator, Joint design of massive millimeter-wave beamforming and fronthaul compression for cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: NRF Korea (한국연구재단)
Period: 2015.11-2018.10Principal investigator, Simultaneous information and power transfer for cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: Korea University (고려대)
Period: 2017.03-2018.02Principal investigator, High-throughput MIMO transmission for the uplink of cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: ETRI (한국전자통신연구원)
Period: 2017.05-2017.11Principal investigator, Research on multiple-antenna techniques for multi-hop communication networks in disaster relief communication systems
Sponsor: Korea University (고려대)
Period: 2015.11-2016.10Research 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 - 2016.04Principal investigator, Signal processing optimization for enhanced physical-layer security in cloud radio access networks
Sponsor: Jeonbuk National University (전북대)
Period: 2015.05 - 2016.02Research staff, Delay-tolerant robust coding for green networking with backhaul constraint
Sponsor: InterDigital Inc.
Period: 2012.02 - 2014.02Research staff, Efficient transceiver design with limited feedback for network MIMO downlink
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2009.12 - 2010.08Research staff, Interference alignment techniques for wireless interference channels
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2008.11 - 2009.10Research staff, Closed-loop MIMO systems with minimal feedback for WiBro
Sponsor: Samsung Electronics
Period: 2006.06 - 2008.11Research staff, 4th generation wireless system design for nomadic system
Sponsor: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Period: 2005.03 - 2005.12