Funding & Awards

Funding:

1. ESA SPARC:

Project Acronym: ESA SPARC

Project title: System-Level Simulator for Accessing the Performance of VLEO Satellite Constellations

Funding: ESA - ARTES 4.0 SPL 5G/6G 3F.019  

Role: Contribute to proposal writing, WP lead about Handover for VLEO system

Budget: 700 kEUR

Period: 2026-2028

Honors and Awards:

• 2024: IEEE RIVF Best Paper Award.

• 2022: won the  "Excellent Thesis Award 2022 in Doctoral School Science and Engineering". Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2022 in science (uni.lu) 

• 2022: Nominated for the FNR Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award.

• 2017-2018: Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Researcher Scholarship of South Korea, Chungbuk National University. 

• 2015-2017: Global Scholarship awarded from Hongik University, South Korea .

• 2016: IEEE IS3C Best Paper Award.

• 2016: Hongik Master Excellence Award.