Awards

2026

• ICT Express Contribution Award — Recognized for outstanding and dedicated contributions to the overall improvement of ICT Express and its high-quality publications (ICT Express, KICS and Elsevier, 8 July 2026).

• Excellent Paper Award — Towards Quantization-Native Zero-Knowledge Verification for INT4 Large Language Model Inference (KICS, 19 June 2026).

• Friend of Africans Award — Recognized for dedicated support and mentorship of African students and professionals, including more than 30 NSL students and graduates from Nigeria, Egypt, Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, and other African countries (WARESA Asia Awards, 10 April 2026).

• Wiley Top Cited Article — Facets of Security and Safety Problems and Paradigms for Smart Aerial Mobility and Intelligent Logistics (3 April 2026).

• Best Presentation — Decentralized Multi-Agent Task Offloading via Meta-Learning Transfer Networks (ICIIT, FPT University, 6 March 2026).

• Excellent Paper Award — PredBlock: An AI–Blockchain Framework for Real-Time Integrity Management in CCS Pipelines (ICAIIC, 26 February 2026).

• Excellent Paper Award — Design and Implementation of an AI-Based System for Encouraging Carbon-Reduction Behavior (KICS, 4 February 2026).

• Best Paper Award — IEDI: A Hybrid NLP-LLM Framework for Intra-English Dialect Interpretation (KICS, 4 February 2026).

2025

• Best Paper Runner-Up Award — DNN-Based Optimal Partial Offloading in Multi-User Multi-Server MEC Networks (MOCSOC/IEEE, 18 December 2025).

• Best Presentation — TrustV2X: A Hybrid Hierarchical and Transfer Federated Learning Framework for Trustworthy Next-Generation V2X Network Communication (ICACS, 13 December 2025).

• Best Paper Award — ChainGrid-Offline: A TEE-Backed Protocol for Cascaded Offline Smart Grid Payments (KICS, 20 November 2025).

• Excellent Paper Award — Blockchain Private Key Storage System for IoT Device (KICS Journal, 20 November 2025).

• Best Paper Award — Scalable and Efficient PureChain-Based Federated Learning for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ICTC, 15 October 2025).

• Best Paper Award — Federated Reinforcement Learning Based Handover for V2X Communications in Imperfect CSI and Doppler Shift (ICMIC, 27 August 2025).

• Excellent Paper Award — Federated Reinforcement Learning Based Multi-Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for V2X Communications in Open RAN (KICS, 18 June 2025).

• Best Paper Award — Robust Huber-Adam Optimizer for Outlier-Prone Machine Learning (KICS, 18 June 2025).

• Academic Award – Research Award (Grand Prize) — Outstanding achievements in academic activities during 2024 (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, 22 May 2025).

• Wiley Top Cited Article — MAD-DDS: Memory-Efficient Automatic Discovery Data Distribution Service for Large-Scale Distributed Control Network (28 April 2025).

• Best Paper Award, ICUFN, 2025 — Existing site record retained.

• Excellent Paper Award — A Study on a Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based RIC for Resolving Interference and QoS xApp Conflicts in O-RAN Networks (KICS, 5 February 2025).

• Best Paper Award — PureEdge: Redundant Edge Computing System for Internet Failover (KICS, 5 February 2025).

• Haedong Excellent Paper Award (Encouragement Prize) — Hybrid Blockchain-Based Incognito Data Sharing with Quantum Computing (KICS, 5 February 2025).

2024

• Grand Prize (KEPCO President's Award) — Anthropomorphic and Accountable AI-Driven Power Generation and Distribution System (Gumi Industrial Complex Energy Self-Sufficiency Data Academic Paper Competition, 4 December 2024).

• Grand Prize (KICS President's Award) — DCFL-Chain: Digital-Twin-Based Collaborative FL-Integrated Energy Consumption Prediction for Smart Factory (4 December 2024).

• Excellence Award (KICS President's Award) — Energy-Twin: Explainable AI-Driven Energy Optimization Using Digital Twin for Smart Industry (4 December 2024).

• Commendation (KICOX Chairman's Award) — PureGrid: AI-Enhanced Blockchain Platform for Predictive Energy Trading and Management (4 December 2024).

• Encouragement Award (KICS President's Award) — Explainable Machine Learning for Energy Consumption Prediction: A Case Study in the Gumi Industrial Complex (4 December 2024).

• Encouragement Award (President of Kumoh National Institute of Technology) — ProphEn: Advanced Energy Forecasting for Korean Industries with Seasonal and Logistic Growth (4 December 2024).

• Commendation — Contributions to the national economy and revitalization of regional entrepreneurship (Ministry of SMEs and Startups, 19 November 2024).

• Grand Prize — Outstanding case in the Industry–Academia Cooperation Best Practice Competition (Ministry of Education, 6 November 2024).

• Best Paper Award — DefectGen: Few-Shot Defect Image Generation Using Stable Diffusion for Steel Surface Analysis (ICTC, 16 October 2024).

• Best Workshop Paper Award — Impact of Adaptive Client Selection on Federated Learning for the IoMT Ecosystem (ICTC, 16 October 2024).

• JCN Best Paper Award — Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Management for Fog Computing Environment: Literature Review, Challenges, and Open Issues (16 October 2024).

• Outstanding Paper Award — Short-Packet-Based Power Allocation Using Quantum Neural Network in Downlink NOMA Systems for Military Communication (ICMIC, 9 August 2024).

• Excellent Paper Award — Federated Learning-Based Joint Radar-Communication mmWave Beamtracking for V2X Communications (ICMIC, 9 August 2024).

• Science and Technology Excellent Paper Award — Campus-Based Test-Bed Implementation of 5G+ Networks at the 28 GHz Band: Challenges and Opportunities (KOFST, 11 July 2024).

• Haedong Excellent Paper Award (Excellence Award) — Joint Blockchain and Collaborative Learning for Novel Zero-Trust Massive IoT in 6G Networks (KICS, 20 June 2024).

• Best Paper Award — Real-Time Object Detection on a Custom-Built Edge Device Using TensorFlow Lite (KICS, 20 June 2024).

• Grand Prize of the Haedong Excellent Paper Award — Blockchain-Based Novel Collaborative Threat Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (KICS, 31 January 2024).

2023

• Best Paper Award — Efficient Voucher Distribution and Non-Transferability in NFT Loyalty Programs (KICS Fall Conference; awarded 31 January 2024).

• Excellent Paper Award — Design and Implementation of a Simulator for Network Performance Analysis of a Naval Combat System (KICS, 23 November 2023).

• Best Paper Award — Verifying the Stability of Tree Algorithms on a Complex Industrial Internet of Things Dataset (KICS, 23 November 2023).

• Minister's Award — Outstanding Project Evaluation, Industry–Academia Cooperation category (Ministry of Science and ICT, 16 November 2023).

• Best Research Award — Minister of Science and Technology Award for Excellent Research at the ITRC Workshop (existing site record retained).

• Best Workshop Paper Award — Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Flying Things: A Robust Approach (ICTC, 12 October 2023).

• Outstanding Paper Award — SHAP-Based Intrusion Detection Framework for Zero-Trust IoT Maritime Security (ICMIC, 24 August 2023).

• Best Paper Award — Federated Learning-Based Joint Radar-Communication mmWave Beamtracking with Imperfect CSI for V2X Communications (ICUFN, July 2023).

2022

• Grand Prize, Technology Cooperation Category — Selected among the National Research Foundation of Korea's 50 Outstanding Achievements (13 December 2022).

• Innovation Leader Grand Prize — Metaverse Industry category (28 October 2022).

• Excellent Paper Award — KICS Summer Conference (November 2022).

• Best Paper Award — KICS Summer Conference (November 2022).

• Best Paper Award — ICTC 2022 (October 2022).

• Excellence Award in Academic Development and Quality Research Results — Ministry of Education Academic Research Support Project (existing site record retained).

2021

• Encouragement Research Group Special Award — KICS (18 November 2021).

• Excellent Paper Award — Selected for the KICS Journal Excellent Paper Award (18 November 2021).

• Certificate of Appreciation — Feasibility study and master plan for the Seongju County industrial-complex transformation and structural-advancement strategy (Seongju County, 9 July 2021).

• Haedong Excellent Paper Award (Encouragement Prize) — KICS Winter Conference (3 February 2021).

• Best Research Award — Industry–Academia Cooperation category, Kumoh Institute of Technology (existing site record retained).

2020

• Special Award — KICS Outstanding Research Group Special Award.

• Haedong Academic Grand Prize — Haedong Science and Culture Foundation, for enhancing Korea's reputation in information and communications technology.

2019

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

2018

• Lifetime Achievement Award — Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Best ITRC Center Award — Ministry of Science and ICT (Director: Prof. Dong-Seong Kim).

• Best Industry–Academic Cooperation Evaluation — Ministry of Science and ICT.

2017

• Best Paper Award — Comparative Study of Wireless Network Technology for Avionic Sensor-Actuator Networks (ACCN 2017).

2016

• Excellence Award — Outstanding paper in the study competition, Korean Society of Communication.

• Excellence Award — Promotion Evaluation Division, ICT Promotion Center.

• Best Paper Award — 14th Embedded Software Competition, Samsung Electronics CEO Award.

• Best ITRC Center Award — IITP/Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

• IEEE Senior Member Elevation — Elevated to IEEE Senior Member and served as Lead Guest Editor of IJDSN Special Issues.

2015

• Best Paper Award — CEIC 2015, IEEE Daejeon Section.

• Best Paper Award — 2015 International Conference on Information Technology and Engineering Application.

• Contribution Award — Gumi City Hall, Republic of Korea.

• Contribution Award — Military ICT Convergence Area, Governor of Gyeongbuk.

2013

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

• Grand Research Award — Kumoh National Institute of Technology.

2012

• Best Paper Award — 14th Conference on Electronics and Information Communications.

• Best Paper Award — CEIC 2012.

2011

• Best Paper Award — CAN Bus Message Scheduling Method for Distributed Control System for Intelligent Ship System (CEIC 2011).

• Personal Contribution Award — Outstanding citation record from IJCAS.

2009

• Excellence Award — Kumoh National Institute of Technology.

2007

• Young Professor Fellowship — Korea Research Foundation.

2004

• Best Paper Award — Design and Implementation of Home Network Systems Using Power Line Communication (IECON 2004).

2003

• Abroad Postdoctoral Fellowship — Korea Science and Engineering Foundation.

Year not specified

• Best Paper Award, IEEE — Existing site record retained.