Kang Min Bae
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
I am a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Song Min Kim in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST.
Research area includes millimeter wave comm., backscatter comm., and low-power sensor network for Internet of Things.
I have published 4+ papers at top conferences including MobiSys and NSDI.
My work has been selected as SIGMOBILE Research Highlights, MobiSys '22 Best Paper Award, and KAIST Research Highlights 2022.
Education
Integrated Master’s/Doctoral Program, KAIST, 2021-Current
Advisor: Prof. Song Min Kim
Master's Program, KAIST, 2020
Advisor: Prof. Song Min Kim
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, 2014-2019
Advisor: Prof. Minkyu Je
Awards
IITP Director's Award, ICT Challenge 2023
Institute for Information & communication Technology Planning & evaluation(IITP), Sept, 2023.
KAIST Research Highlights, 2022
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, July, 2023.
SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
ACM SIGMOBILE, April, 2023.
Best Paper Award, MobiSys '22
The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June, 2022.
Publications
SuperSight: Sub-cm NLOS Localization for mmWave Backscatter
MobiSys '24: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Co-primary author with Hankyeol Moon
mmComb: High-speed mmWave Commodity WiFi Backscatter
NSDI '24: 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Third author
OmniScatter: Extreme Sensitivity mmWave Backscattering Using Commodity FMCW Radar (Invited Paper)
GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications
Primary author
Hawkeye: Hectometer-range Subcentimeter Localization for Large-scale mmWave Backscatter (Best Paper Finalist)
MobiSys '23: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Co-primary author with Hankyeol Moon
Poster: Submillimeter Localization for mmWave Backscatter Using Commodity 77 GHz Radar
MobiSys '23: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Co-primary author with Hankyeol Moon
OmniScatter: Extreme Sensitivity mmWave Backscattering Using Commodity FMCW Radar (Best Paper Award)
MobiSys '22: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
Primary author
On the Feasibility of Millimeter-wave Backscatter using Commodity 802.11 ad 60 GHz Radios
WiNTECH '20: Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization
Second author
Patents
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION BASED ON BACKSCATTER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
U.S. Patent Application, 18073149
Korea Patent Application, 10-2022-0162049
China Patent Application, CN202211539902.3
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCALIZATION BASED ON BACKSACTTER IN mmWAVE BAND
Korea Patent Application, 10-2023-0077736
Experience
Student Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024
Student Reviewer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022
Head TA, EE414 Embedded Systems, 2022 Spring
TA, EE959(B) Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering <Mobile Computing and Systems for Intelligent Living>, 2021 Fall
TA, EE414 Embedded Systems, 2021 Spring
Co-founder, Prometheus Microhydro Powerplant, 2016-2018
Project Lead, Passive Solar House in Nepal, Engineers Without Borders KAIST, 2014-2015
Research Funds
Batteryless mmWave Tag System for Super-precision and Multi-dimensional Object Perception
SMILE LAB, Samsung Electronics, 2021-CurrentDevelopment of communication/computing-integrated revolutionary technologies for superintelligent services
SMILE LAB, IITP (Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation), 2020-Current
Technical Abilities
Signal processing, HDL & embedded programming, RF design, circuit design