Ph.D. and M.S. Students

Seok Bin Son (Ph.D. Student, 03/2022-Present) [Website]

• Awards and Honors (International)
  IEEE ICDCS Best Runner Up Poster Paper Award (2025)
  Bronze Paper Award, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest (2023)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  Quantum Federated Learning with Pole-Angle Quantum Local Training and Trainable Measurement, Neural Networks (Elsevier), 187:107301, July 2025. S. Park, H. Lee, S. B. Son, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Dynamic Quantum Federated Learning for UAV-based Autonomous Surveillance, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 74(5):8158-8170, May 2025. S. Park, S. B. Son, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Joint Delay-Sensitive and Power-Efficient Quality Control of Dynamic Video Streaming using Adaptive Super-Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 8(1):103-117, March 2024. M. Choi, W. J. Yun, S. B. Son, S. Park, J. Kim
  Two-Stage Architectural Fine-Tuning for Neural Architecture Search in Efficient Transfer Learning, IET Electronics Letters, 59(24):e13066, December 2023. S. Park, S. B. Son, Y. K. Lee, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Entropy-Aware Similarity for Balanced Clustering: A Case Study with Melanoma Detection, IEEE Access, 11:46892-46902, May 2023. S. B. Son, S. Park, J. Kim
  Filtered One-Shot Training for Quantum Architecture Search, ACM CIKM (2025) S. B. Son, S. Y.-C. Chen, J. Kim, S. Park
  Quantum Circuit Structure Optimization for Quantum Reinforcement Learning, IEEE QCE (2025) S. B. Son, J. Kim

• Publications (Under Review)
  Federated Quantum Training and Inference: State-of-the-Arts and the Road Ahead, IEEE Communications Magazine (Revision) S. B. Son, S. Park, M. Bennis, J. Kim
  Efficient Quantum Neural Architecture Search with Filtered Supernet for Mobile Learnins Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Revision) S. B. Son, H. Ahn, S. Y.-C. Chen, S. Park, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Review) S. B. Son, J. Kim, S. Park
  Network-Adaptive Quantum Neural Architecture Search for Mobile Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) S. B. Son, H. Ahn, S. Y.-C. Chen, K. Dev, S. Park, J. Kim
  Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Quantum Machine Learning Inference on Real Quantum Devices, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Review) S. Lee, S. B. Son, C. Kim, J. Kim, H. P. In
  (Double Blind Review), ECCV (Review) S. B. Son, S. Oh, J. Kim, S. Jung, S. Park

Jaehyun Chung (Ph.D. Student, 09/2023-Present)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  Quantum Learning for Autonomous Aircraft Control: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective, IEEE Communications Magazine, v(n):ppp-ppp, Month Year. G. S. Kim, J. Chung, S. Park, S. Jung, T. Q. Duong, J. Kim
  Quantum Federated Aggregation using the Parameter-Shift Rule, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 13(11):ppp-ppp, June 2026. J. Chung, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim, W. Lee
  Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Joint Control, Communication, and Computing in Stabilized Reusable Space Rocket, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 62:3838-3863, March 2026. G. S. Kim, J. Chung, S. Jung, S. Park, J. Kim
  Quantum Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Mobile Access in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 25(1):1200-1218, January 2026. G. S. Kim, Y. Cho, J. Chung, S. Park, S. Jung, Z. Han, J. Kim
  Correlation-Assisted Spatio-Temporal Reinforcement Learning for Stock Revenue Maximization, Experts Systems with Applications (Elsevier), 289:128361, September 2025. J. Chung, M. Kim, S. Min, H. Choi, S. Park, J. Kim
  Joint Quantum Reinforcement Learning and Stabilized Control for Spatio-Temporal Coordination in Metaverse, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 23(12):12410-12427, December 2024. S. Park, J. Chung, C. Park, S. Jung, M. Choi, S. Cho, J.  Kim
  Stabilized Robust Control for Lightweight Autonomous Aircraft Mobility: A Quantum Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEE/IFIP WiOpt (2025) G. S. Kim, J. Chung, T. Q. Duong, S. Park, J. Kim

• Publications (Under Review)
  Joint Decision Transformer and Reinforcement Learning for Robust Attacker Evasion in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Environments, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science (Elsevier) (Review) J. Chung, H. Ahn, C. Im, B. Kang, J. Choi, Y. Yoon, J. Kim
  Joint Mobility Control and Networking for Autonomous Aircraft Cooperation: A Quantum Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Revision) G. S. Kim, J. Chung, Roh, S. Jung, S. Park, T. Q. Duong, J. Kim

Emily Jimin Roh (Ph.D. Student, 03/2024-Present)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  Bronze Paper Award, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest (2024)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  Fourier Analysis Perspective on Quantum Neural Networks, Communications Physics (Nature), v(n):ppp-ppp, Month Year. S. Oh, E. J. Roh, A. Vasilakos, S. Park, J. Kim
  Quantum Jump to Connected Worlds: Paradigm Shifts in Mobility and Network Applications via Quantum Neural Networks, IEEE Network, v(n):ppp-ppp, Month Year. H. Lee, G. S. Kim, E. J. Roh, S. Jung, S. Park, T. Q. Duong, J. Kim
  Joint Scalable Quantum Convolutional Neural Network and Reverse-Fidelity Training for High-Accurate Recognition in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Surveillance, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), 81(16):1495, October 2025. E. J. Roh, J. Kim, S. Jung, S. Park
  Stabilized Classification Control using Multi-Stage Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Autonomous Driving, IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks, 27(4):264-272, August 2025. E. J. Roh, S. Park, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Quantum-Eyes: Scalable Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Low-Overhead Object Detection, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 20(3):63-74, August 2025. J. Kim, E. J. Roh, C. Im, S. Park
  Fast Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Low-Complexity Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Applications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 24(2):1031-1042, February 2025. E. J. Roh, H. Baek, D. Kim, J. Kim
  Hybrid Quantum-Classical 3D Object Detection using Multi-Channel Quantum Convolutional Neural Network, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), 81(3):455, February 2025. E. J. Roh, J. Y. Shim. J. Kim, S. Park
  Quantum-Amplitude Embedded Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Large Language Models, ACM CIKM (2025) E. J. Roh, J. Kim

• Publications (Under Review)
  Multi-Channel Hybrid Quantum-Classical Convolutional Neural Networks for Advanced Image Processing Tasks, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (Revision) E. J. Roh, H. Baek, S. Park, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Review) E. J. Roh, H. Ahn, J. Kim
  Energy-Aware Waypoint-Based AUV Control in Dynamic Obstacle Fields via Graph Transformer Policy Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Review) E. J. Roh, J. Lee, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim
  Adaptive Heading Control for Waypoint-Based AUV Navigation Using Contextual Scene Transformer Policy Optimization, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) (Review) E. J. Roh, J. Lee, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim
  Scale-Reconfigurable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Aerial Networks under Uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Revision) G. S. Kim, E. J. Roh, S. Jung, S. Park, J. Kim
  Expoentially Scalable Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Network Scheduling, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Review) G. S. Kim, E. J. Roh, S. Park, J. Kim
  Noise-Aware Adaptive Teleportation-Aided Quantum Split Federated Learning: A Stackelberg Game Theory Approach, IEEE Transactions on Networking (Review) C. Im, E. J. Roh, S. Park, J. Kim, W. Lee
  Two-Stage MPC-Guided Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Control in Dynamic Obstacle Environments, IEEE Access (IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Section) (Review) S. Kim, E. J. Roh, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) E. J. Roh, H. Ahn, H. Lee, et al.
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) H. Ahn, E. J. Roh, et al. 

Seungcheol Oh (Ph.D. Student, 03/2025-Present) [Website]

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  Fourier Analysis Perspective on Quantum Neural Networks, Communications Physics (Nature), v(n):ppp-ppp, Month Year. S. Oh, E. J. Roh, A. Vasilakos, S. Park, J. Kim
  Understanding Qubit Trajectories in Parametrized Quantum Circuits, Physical Review A, 113:022609, February 2026. S. Oh, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim
  Hallucination-Aware Generative Pretrained Transformer for Cooperative Aerial Mobility Control, IEEE GLOBECOM (2025) H. Ahn, S. Oh, G. S. Kim,S. Jung, S. Park, J. Kim

• Publications (Under Review)
  Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Combating Spectral Bias: Theory and Applications to Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) S. Oh, S. Kim, J. Kim
  Multi-Channel Feature Extraction for Data-Reuploading Quantum Neural Networks, Physical Review Applied (Review) S. Oh, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim
  Geometric and Lie-Algebraic Analysis of Expressivity and Barren Plateaus in Data-Reuploading Parameterized Quantum Circuits, Physical Review A (Review) S. Oh, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim
  Stabilized Multi-Agent Transformer for Carbon-Neutral Task Offloading in Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Revision) H. Lee, M. Lee, S. Oh, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Hallucination-Aware Hierarchical LLM for Autonomous UAV Mobility Control: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Transactions on Networking (Review) H. Ahn, S. Oh, G. S. Kim, S. Park, S. Jung, J. Kim
  A Survey on AI Methods for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free MIMO Networks, ICT Express (Review) M. Lee, S. Oh, J. Kim, S. Park
  Toward Quantum Combinatorial Optimization: From QAOA Fundamentals to Industrial Deployment, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (Review) Y. P. Hong, J. Gil, D. Kim, S. Oh, B. S. Kim, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) S. Oh, C. Im, D. Kim, S. Park, V. Aggarwal, M. Heidari, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), ACCV (Review) S. Oh, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) C. Im, S. Oh, J. Kim, S. Park
  (Double Blind Review), ECCV (Review) S. B. Son, S. Oh, J. Kim, S. Jung, S. Park
  Coordinated Descent for Multi-Angle QAOA, IEEE QCE (Review) D. Kim, S. Oh, Y. P. Hong, J. Kim

Minji Lee (Ph.D. Student, 09/2025-Present)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  Young Scientist Award, IEICE ICSANE (2025)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Stabilized Multi-Agent Transformer for Carbon-Neutral Task Offloading in Satellite-Ground Integrated Networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Revision) H. Lee, M. Lee, S. Oh, S. Jung, J. Kim
  A Survey on AI Methods for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free MIMO Networks, ICT Express (Review) M. Lee, S. Oh, J. Kim, S. Park
  Transformer Methods for Autonomous Mobility Systems, ACM Computing Surveys (Review) Y. Cho, M. Lee, C. Im, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, T. Quek, Z. Han, J. Kim

Jioh Lee (Ph.D. Student, 03/2026-Present)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  TBD

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Energy-Aware Waypoint-Based AUV Control in Dynamic Obstacle Fields via Graph Transformer Policy Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Review) E. J. Roh, J. Lee, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim
  Adaptive Heading Control for Waypoint-Based AUV Navigation Using Contextual Scene Transformer Policy Optimization, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) (Review) E. J. Roh, J. Lee, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim

Hoyeong Lee (Ph.D. Student, 03/2026-Present)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  TBD

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Multi-Drug Infusion Control in Anesthesia, npj Digital Medicine (Review) H. Lee, H. Ahn, S. Park, H.-C. Lee, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Review) G. S. Kim, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, Z. Han, J. Kim
  Transformer Methods for Autonomous Mobility Systems, ACM Computing Surveys (Review) Y. Cho, M. Lee, C. Im, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, T. Quek, Z. Han, J. Kim
  AQuA-Cache: Agentic Quantum-AI for LLM-Guided Content Caching in Large-Scale Short-Form Video, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Review) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, M. Choi, K. Bian, J. Kim
  Living on the Quantum Edge: Agentic Quantum AI for Mobile Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Jung, M. Bennis, S. Park, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), ACM CIKM (2026) H. Lee, H. Ahn, S. Park, W. Saad, H.-C. Lee, J. Kim
  AQuA-Cache: Agentic Quantum-AI for LLM-Guided Model Selection in Large-Scale Short-Form Video Services, IEEE QCE (2026) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, M. Choi, K. Bian, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) E. J. Roh, H. Ahn, H. Lee, et al.

Hyojun Ahn (M.S. Student, 03/2025-Present)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  Bronze Paper Award, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest (2025)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  Hybrid Large Language Model and Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficient Multisatellite Scheduling: Boosting the Performance from Scratch, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 13(3):5379-5392, February 2026. H. Ahn, G. S. Kim, I.-S. Cho, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Hallucination-Aware Generative Pretrained Transformer for Cooperative Aerial Mobility Control, IEEE GLOBECOM (2025) H. Ahn, S. Oh, G. S. Kim,S. Jung, S. Park, J. Kim

• Publications (Under Review)
  Hallucination-Aware Hierarchical LLM for Autonomous UAV Mobility Control: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Transactions on Networking (Review) H. Ahn, S. Oh, G. S. Kim, S. Park, S. Jung, J. Kim
  Streamable Quantum Edge: Joint Global Quantum Caching and Distributed Streaming for Over-the-Top Media Services, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Review) H. Ahn, J. Heo, S. Park, Z. Han, J. Kim
  AQuA-Cache: Agentic Quantum-AI for LLM-Guided Content Caching in Large-Scale Short-Form Video, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Review) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, M. Choi, K. Bian, J. Kim
  Living on the Quantum Edge: Agentic Quantum AI for Mobile Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Jung, M. Bennis, S. Park, J. Kim
  Joint Decision Transformer and Reinforcement Learning for Robust Attacker Evasion in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Environments, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science (Elsevier) (Review) J. Chung, H. Ahn, C. Im, B. Kang, J. Choi, Y. Yoon, J. Kim
  Efficient Quantum Neural Architecture Search with Filtered Supernet for Mobile Learnins Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Revision) S. B. Son, H. Ahn, S. Y.-C. Chen, S. Park, J. Kim
  Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Carbon-Aware Energy-Efficient Air Traffic Control, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Review) G. S. Kim, H. Ahn, Z. Han, J. Kim
  Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Multi-Drug Infusion Control in Anesthesia, npj Digital Medicine (Review) H. Lee, H. Ahn, S. Park, H.-C. Lee, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Review) E. J. Roh, H. Ahn, J. Kim
  Network-Adaptive Quantum Neural Architecture Search for Mobile Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) S. B. Son, H. Ahn, S. Y.-C. Chen, K. Dev, S. Park, J. Kim
  AQuA-Cache: Agentic Quantum-AI for LLM-Guided Model Selection in Large-Scale Short-Form Video Services, IEEE QCE (2026) H. Ahn, H. Lee, S. Park, S. Jung, M. Choi, K. Bian, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), ACM KDD (2026) H. Ahn, E. J. Roh, S. Park, W. Saad, H.-C. Lee, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) H. Ahn, E. J. Roh, et al.
  (Double Blind Review), ACM CIKM (2026) H. Lee, H. Ahn, S. Park, W. Saad, H.-C. Lee, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) E. J. Roh, H. Ahn, H. Lee, et al.

Hojun Kim (M.S. Student, 03/2026-Present), Department of Defense Convergence Technology (LIG Nex1)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  TBD

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  TBD

Junseo Min (M.S. Student, 03/2026-Present), Department of Defense Convergence Technology (LIG Nex1)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  TBD

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Transformer-based Decision-Making for Autonomous Mobility Paradigm Transformation, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Review) Y. Cho, J. Min, C. Im, S. Park, J. Kim
  GRIT: Global-Residual Interaction-Aware Hierarchical Transformer for Multimodal End-to-End Autonomous Driving, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Review) Y. Cho, J. Min, H. Park, S. Park, J. Kim

Seihun Kim (M.S. Student, 03/2026-Present), Department of Defense Convergence Technology (LIG Nex1)

• Awards and Honors (International)
  TBD

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Two-Stage MPC-Guided Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Control in Dynamic Obstacle Environments, IEEE Access (IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Section) (Review) S. Kim, E. J. Roh, I. Song, J. Kwon, S. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Kim
  Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Combating Spectral Bias: Theory and Applications to Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine (Review) S. Oh, S. Kim, J. Kim

Daeyeun Kim (Researcher, Summer 2025-Present)

• Journals and Top-Conferences
  TBD

• Publications (Under Review)
  Toward Quantum Combinatorial Optimization: From QAOA Fundamentals to Industrial Deployment, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (Review) Y. P. Hong, J. Gil, D. Kim, S. Oh, B. S. Kim, J. Kim
  Coordinated Descent for Multi-Angle QAOA, IEEE QCE (Review) D. Kim, S. Oh, Y. P. Hong, J. Kim
  (Double Blind Review), NeurIPS (Review) S. Oh, C. Im, D. Kim, S. Park, V. Aggarwal, M. Heidari, J. Kim