Joohyun Lee, Ph. D.

Short Bio

• I am an Associate Professor at Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea, from 2018. I received my BS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering at KAIST in 2008 and 2014, respectively. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Ohio State University from 2014 to 2018. I am leading the Laboratory of Intelligent Things (LoIT) (지능사물연구실) at Hanyang University. More details can be found in my curriculum vitae [CV].

• I am visiting the University of British Columbia from Feb. 2024 to Feb. 2025 as a visiting associate professor.

Announcement

• (대학원생 모집) 인공지능/강화학습/사물인터넷/자연어처리/과금정책 연구에 관심 있는 신입생을 모집합니다 (이메일로 면담 신청). 

• (학부생 인턴 모집) 인공지능/강화학습/사물인터넷/자연어처리/과금정책 연구에 관심 있거나 대학원 진학에 관심 있는 학부생 인턴을 모집합니다 (이메일로 면담 신청).

• I am looking for highly self-motivated and well-qualified graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. Scholarship and competitive payroll costs will be provided. Please contact me for more information.

• I am looking for undergraduate interns for Reinforcement Learning, Internet of Things, Natural Language Processing or Network Pricing. Please contact me for more information.

Research Interests 

•    Internet of Things

•    Reinforcement Learning

•    Multi-armed Bandit Problems

•    Learning in Networked Systems

•    Natural Language Processing for Medical Applications

•    Network Economics and Pricing

Projects

•  Development of 6G APIs guaranteeing application performance through interactions with cellular systems (고수준 응용-네트워크 연동 프로그래머블 인터페이스 기술 개발), IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion), 2024. 4 ~ 2028. 12 (Co-PIs: 이경한 (Lead PI, 서울대학교), 전상운 (한양대학교))

• Learning-based Network Traffic Scheduling for Smart Devices and Edge Clouds (스마트기기와 엣지 클라우드를 위한 학습 기반 네트워크 트래픽 스케줄링), National Research Foundation of Korea (한국연구재단), 2021. 03 ~ 2025. 02

• BK21 (Brain Korea) (혁신형-차세대통신), National Research Foundation of Korea (한국연구재단), 2020. 9 ~ 2027.2 (Lead PI: 남해운 (한양대학교))

• 인공지능융합혁신인재양성(R&D), IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion), 2022. 7 ~ 2025.12 (Lead PI: 김정룡 (한양대학교))

• AI 융합연구센터 (바이오인공지능융합연구센터), IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion), 2020. 4 ~ 2022.12 (Lead PI: 김정룡 (한양대학교))

• AI-based Distributed Channel Access for Massive IoT (Massive IoT 지원을 위한 AI 기반 분산적 채널 액세스 알고리즘 설계 및 구현 검증), Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology (삼성전자 미래기술육성센터), 2018. 09 ~ 2022. 02 (Co-PIs: Hu Jin (Lead PI, 한양대학교), 전상운 (한양대학교))

•  Reinforcement Learning-based Personalization and Resource Management for Smart Devices (강화학습 기반 스마트기기 개인화 및 리소스 관리 기술 연구), National Research Foundation of Korea (한국연구재단), 2018. 06 ~ 2021. 05

•  Transport-aware Streaming Technique Enabling Ultra Low-Latency AR/VR Services (초저지연 AR/VR 서비스를 실현하는 전송계층-인지 스트리밍 기술 연구), IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion), 2018. 3 ~ 2020. 12 (Co-PIs: 이경한 (서울대학교), 고성안 (Lead PI, UNIST), Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University))

Professional Activities

•    Member of IEEE 

•    Member of KICS (한국통신학회)

•    Website Chair of IEEE WiOpt (2024)

•    TPC Co-Chair of ICOIN (2023)

•    Finance Chair of ACM MobiHoc (2022)

Awards 

• IEEE ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize of 2016 (Links: http://v.media.daum.net/v/20160420181605555, https://ece.osu.edu/news/2016/05/joohyun-lee-wins-2016-ieee-communications-society-william-r.-bennett-prize)

  • Paper: “Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?”, IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, Volume 21, No. 2, pp. 536-551, April 2013.ž

• ERICA Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Hanyang University, 2023

• BK 대학원생 우수연구자 (Yu Zhao 학생 수상), 2022

• 2018년 교육부 학술·연구 지원사업 우수 성과 41선 선정 (이경한 교수 (서울대학교) 연구실과 공동연구)

  • Link: https://news.unist.ac.kr/kor/20181115-1

  • Paper: “CAS: Context-aware Background Application Scheduling in Interactive Mobile Systems,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1013-1029, 2017

• 한국통신학회 2019년 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문 (Q-learning 강화학습을 이용한 가격 예측에 관한 연구)

  • 학부 인턴 임희주 학생 수상

• Samsung Humantech 2012 (National Annual Research Paper Award in Korea) Gold Prize 

  • Paper Title: “Economics of WiFi Offloading: Trading Delay for Cellular Capacity”

• Samsung Humantech 2015 Gold Prize (co-author, presented by Jeongho Kwak)

  • Paper Title: “DREAM: Dynamic Resource and Task Allocation for Energy Minimization in Mobile Cloud Systems”

• Samsung Humantech 2016 Bronze Prize (presented by Euijin Jeong)

  • Paper Title: “Context-aware Application Scheduling in Mobile Systems: What Will Users Do and Not Do Next?”

• Samsung Humantech 2017 Silver Prize (co-author, presented by Wooseung Nam)

  • Paper Title: “SyncCoding: A Compression Technique Exploiting References for Data Synchronization Services”

• Samsung Humantech 2020 Bronze Prize (co-advisor, presented by Jeongmin Bae)