Professor

• Major Research Interests
• Network Information Theory
• Distributed Source Coding
• Wireless Power Transfer and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
• Machine-Learning and Deep Learning based Communication and Networking Algorithms
• Full/Flexible Duplexing
• Multi-user MIMO, Massive MIMO, Hybrid Beamforming
• mmWave, Tera-Hz Communications
• Cloud-RAN Wireless Networks
• Underwater Wireless Networks, Ocean Wireless Networks

Experiences

Assistant Professor / Hallym University, Current

Network information theory

Machine learning and applications

Big data architecture design

Senior Research Scientist / Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (ICT research center) 2016~2019

Information and communication system design for maritime applications

􏰃Machine learning based communication strategies

􏰃Research and development for communication technologies, internet of things, and UAVs

Post Doctoral Fellow / Ecole Polytechnique Fedrale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2014~2016

Research advisor: Professor Michael Gastpar

Practical code design for compute–forward multiple access

Research on information theoretic caching and structured codes

Principal Engineer / Samsung Electronics (Samsung Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, DMC R&D Center) 2012~2014

Physical-layer network coding

Code design for noisy network coding

LTE/LTE-A standards

Visiting Scholar / University of California, San Diego, 2009~2010

Noisy network coding

Hybrid coding for joint source channel coding

Education

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, 2011

KAIST, Daejeon,eoepublic of Korea

Dissertation: Network information flow over noisy networks

Information flow over noisy networksAdvisor: Prof. Sae-Young Chung

M.S. in Electronic Engineering, 2007

KAIST, Daejeon,eoepublic of Korea

Dissertation: On the capacity of broadcast channels with imperfect CSIT

Advisor: Prof. Sae-Young Chung

B.S, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 2005

Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Honors and Awards

• Samsung Human Tech award (Gold) (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics), Aug. 2011