Short Biography

Jinkyu Kang received the B.Sc. degree in electrical communications engineering, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2009, 2011, and 2015, respectively. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. He served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electronics Research Institute at KAIST from 2015 to 2016, and with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was a Senior Engineer with the Standards Research Team at Samsung Research, Seoul, South Korea, working on 5G standardization for 3GPP. He was an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor with the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea, from September 2020 to August 2026. Since September 2026, he has been with Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. 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. 2020– Aug. 2026 Myongji University, Gyeonggi-do, Korea 

Associate/Assistant Professor at Department of Information and Communication Engineering

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

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

Staff Engineer at 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