Awards

Grand Prize of Haedong Excellent Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for Blockchain-based Novel Collaborative Threat Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (KICS 2024).

Best Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for Federated Learning-Based Joint Radar-Communication mmWave Beamtracking for V2X Communications (KICS 2025).

Outstanding Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for Short-Packet Based Power Allocation Using Quantum Neural Network in Downlink NOMA Systems for Military Communication (International Conference on M3 IT Convergence 2024).

Best Workshop Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for Impact of Adaptive Client Selection on Federated Learning for IoMT Ecosystem (ICTC 2024).

Best Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for DefectGen: Few-Shot Defect Image Generation Using Stable Diffusion for Steel Surface Analysis.

Best Paper Award (2024) – Awarded for Real-time Object Detection on a Custom Built Edge Device Using Tensorflow Lite.

Excellence Award in Academic Development and Quality Research Results (2022) – Awarded by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Support Project.

Best Research Award (2023) – Minister of Science and Technology Award for Excellent Research at ITRC Workshop.

Best Research Award (2021) – Industry-Academia Cooperation Category from Kumoh Institute of Technology.

Grand Best Journal Paper Award (2019) – Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology for Design and Performance Analysis of Asymmetric Multi-Access Techniques for Response Time and Throughput Improvement of Tactical Wireless Network.

Best Paper Award (2017) – Awarded at ACCN2017 for Comparative Study of Wireless Network Technology for Avionic Sensor-Actuator Networks.

Best Paper Award (2015) – Awarded at CEIC 2015: IEEE Daejeon Section.

Best Paper Award (2015) – Awarded at the 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Engineering Application.

Contribution Award (2015) – Awarded by Gumi City Hall, South Korea.

Best Paper Award (2013) – Fall Conference of the Korea Institute of Signal Processing and Systems (KISPS).

Best Paper Award (2012) – 14th Conference on Electronics & Information Communications.

Best Paper Award (2012) – CEIC 2012.

Best Paper Award (2011) – CEIC 2011 for CAN bus Message Scheduling Method for Distributed Control System for Intelligent Ship System.

Best Paper Award (2004) – IECON2004 for Design and Implementation of Home Network Systems using Power Line Communication.

Personal Contribution Award (2011) – Awarded for outstanding record of citations from IJCAS.

Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) – Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Best ITRC Center Award (2018) – Awarded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Director Prof. Dong Seong Kim).

Best Industry-Academic Cooperation Evaluation (2018) – Awarded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Excellence Award (2016) – Awarded for outstanding paper in the study competition from the Korean Society of Communication.

Excellence Award (2016) – Awarded in Promotion Evaluation Division from the Director of the ICT Promotion Center.

Best Paper Award (2016) – Awarded at the 14th Embedded Software Competition, Samsung Electronics CEO Awards.

Best ITRC Center Award (2016) – Awarded by IITP/Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

IEEE Senior Member Elevation (2016) – Elevated to IEEE Senior Member and Lead Guest Editor of IJDSN Special Issues.

Contribution Award (2015) – Awarded for Military ICT Convergence Area by Governor of Kyungbuk.

Grand Research Award (2013) – Awarded at Kumoh National Institute of Technology.

Excellence Award (2009) – Awarded at Kumoh National Institute of Technology.

Young Professor Fellowship (2007) – Awarded by the Korea Research Foundation.

Abroad Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003) – Awarded by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.