Short Biography

Jinkyu Kang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical communications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in elec- trical engineering from the Korea Advanced Insti- tute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, respectively, in 2009, 2011, and 2015, respectively. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technol- ogy, Newark, NJ, USA, and he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electron- ics Research Institute, KAIST, from 2015 to 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Senior Engineer of Standards Research Team of Next-generation Communications Research Center of Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea, where he worked on 5G standardization for 3GPP.  From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electronics Research Institute of KAIST. He was also a PostDoctoral Research Fellow with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. His research interests include wireless communication, signal processing for cooperative communication, and information theory.

Research Interests

Signal Processing, Optimization, and Applications

UAV, mobile cloud computing, navigation/localization/communications in cloud-based networks, localization in body area networks

(massive MIMO, mmWave, IoT)

Machine learning/Deep learning

Functional MRI preprocessing, brain activation & functional connectivity modeling, learning-based interference modeling & mitigation

Work & Research Experiences

Sep. 2017– Aug. 2020 Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea

Staff Engineer of Standards Research Team of Next Generation Communications Research Center

Project: Beyond 5G Standardization - Coverage enhancement, V2X (Vehicular-to-Everything), NTN (non-Terrestrial network)

Mar. 2016 – Aug. 2017 Harvard university, Boston, MA, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Vahid Tarokh)

Project: Dictionary learning and Motion correction for free‐breathing myocardial MRI image (in collaboration with Harvard medical school & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

Mar. 2015 – Feb. 2016 KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Joonhyuk Kang)

Project: Cloud-RAN systems with imperfect channel state information (in collaboration with New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2013 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

Visiting scholar of Center for Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Research (Advisor: Prof. Osvaldo Simeone)

Project: Joint signal and channel state information compression for C-RAN system