Prof. Heejung Yu

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Feb. 2011

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Feb. 2001

• B.S. in Radio Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1999

Experience 

• Research Assistant, Digital Communications Lab., KAIST, Mar. 1999 - Jan. 2001.

• Senior Researcher, Next GenerationWireless LAN Research Team, ETRI, Feb. 2001 - Aug. 2006

• Research Assistant, Digital Communications Lab., KAIST, Jan. 2007 - Aug. 2010.

• Senior Researcher, Wireless LAN Research Team, ETRI, Sep. 2010 - Aug. 2012.

• Visiting Professor, Dept. of EECS, University of California, Irvine, Aug. 2017 - Jul. 2018.

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2019.

• Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University, Sep. 2019 - Present.

• Administrative Director, Office of Research and Industry-Academic Cooperation, Korea Univeristy, June 2022 - Arp. 2024.

Honors and Awards 

• GPA Scholarship, Korea University, 1995 - 1999.

• Graduated with the Best Honors in Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Korea Univ., 1999.

• Best Research Team Award in ETRI, 2004.

• Best Researcher Award in ETRI, 2005.

• Best Paper Award in ETRI, 2005.

• Best Student Award in the 1st year of Ph.D course, KAIST, 2009.

• Excellent Student Award in the 2nd year of Ph.D course, KAIST, 2010.

• Bronze Prize in the 17th Samsung Humantech Paper Contest, SAMSUNG, 2011.

• Best Paper Award in Joint Conference on Communications and Information, 2011.

• Contribution Award, 5G Forum, 2017.

• Best Paper Award in KICS Winter conference, 2017.

• Excellent Research Award, Yeungman Univ., 2015, 2019.

• Seoktap Reseach Award, Korea Univ. Sejong, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

• Minister's Commendation, Minister of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea, Nov. 01, 2022.

• Best Teaching Award, Korea University (Digital Communication), Spring 2022.

• Best Paper Award, IEIE Academic Symposium, Dec. 2022.

• Best Paper Award, KICS Fall Conference, Feb. 2023.

• Haedong Best Paper Award, KICS Winter Conference, Feb. 2025.

Other Activities 

• Editor, ICT Express, 2022 - Present.

• IEEE, Senior member, 2007 - Present.

• 5G Forum service committee, 2014 - Present.

• KICS, member, 2012 - Present.

• IEEK, member, 2013 - Present.

• KSII, member, 2013 - Present.

• Voting member of IEEE 802.11 working group, 2003 - 2006, 2011 - Present.

• Voting member of IEEE 802.16 working group, 2002 - 2003.

• Editor of ICT Express, 2024-Present.

• Guest Editor of Future Generation Computer Systems (SI: Internet of Things (IoT): Operating System, Applications and Protocols Design, and Validation Techniques), 2017.

• Lead Guest Editor of Future Generation Computer Systems (SI:Tactile Internet: Technologies, Test Platforms, Trials, and Applications), 2018.

• Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. Communications, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEE Electronics Letters, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE SPAWC, IEEE VTC etc.

Research Area 

• Statistical Signal Processing for Communications

• Communication Theory

• 5G and 6G systems (services and technologies) 

• WiFi Standardization (IEEE 802.11ah, 11ax, etc)