Seong-Joon Park

Hi, I'm  Seong-Joon Park, a Staff Engineer at Samsung Electronics. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) hosted by Prof. Yongjune Kim. I received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), where I was advised by Prof. Jong-Seon No.

My research area focuses on channel coding, machine learning, and quantum error correction

• Channel coding for wireless communication and memory systems

• AI/ML-based decoder for error correcting codes

• Quantum error correction

Preprints and submitted papers

• Hierarchical qubit-merging transformer for quantum error correction

Seong-Joon Park et al.

submitted, 2025

• Cross-attention message-passing transformers for code-agnostic decoding in 6G networks 

Seong-Joon Park et al.

submitted, 2025

• Efficient message-passing transformer for error correcting codes

Seong-Joon Park, Taewoo Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, Yongjune Kim, and Jong-Seon No

submitted, 2025

• Lowering the error floor of error correction code transformer

Taewoo Park, Seong-Joon Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, and Yongjune Kim

submitted, arxiv, 2025

Journal & conference papers

• CrossMPT: Cross-attention message passing transformer for error correcting codes

Seong-Joon Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, Yongjune Kim, and Jong-Seon No

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), (Top-tier AI conference)

• Multiple-masks error correction code transformer for short block codes

Seong-Joon Park , Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Yongjune Kim, and Jong-Seon No

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), 2025 (IF: 17.2, JCR 1.3%)

- Silver Prize ($10,000), 30th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd [link]

- Best Paper Award, 34th Joint Conference on Communication and Information [link]

• Reducing costs by error correction using soft information of variable-length reads in DNA-based data storage

Seong-Joon Park, Sunghwan Kim, Jaeho Jeong, Albert No, Jong-Seon No, and Hosung Park

Bioinformatics, 2023 (Rank #1 in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Google scholar)

- Excellence Award ($3,000), 15th ICT Thesis Contest Grand Prize [link]

• BIC codes: Bit insertion-based constrained codes with error correction for DNA Storage

Seong-Joon Park, Hosung Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, and Jong-Seon No

IEEE Transactions on  Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE TETC), vol. 11, issue. 3, pp. 764 - 777, Jul. - Sep. 2023.

• Generative adversarial networks for DNA storage channel simulator

Sanghoon Kang, Yunfei Gao, Jaeho Jeong, Seong-Joon Park, Jae-Won Kim, Jong-Seon No, Hahyeon Jeon, Jeong Wook Lee, Sung Hwan Kim, Hosung Park, and Albert No

IEEE Access, vol. 11 pp. 3781 - 3793, Jan. 2023.

• Iterative DNA coding scheme with GC balance and run-length constraints using a greedy algorithm

Seong-Joon Park, Yongwoo Lee, and Jong-Seon No

Journal of communications and networks (JCN), vol. 24, issue 3, pp. 283-291, Apr. 2022.

• Cooperative sequence clustering and decoding for DNA storage system with fountain codes

Jaeho Jeong, Seong-Joon Park, Jae-Won Kim, Jong-Seon No, Ha Hyeon Jeon, Jeong Wook Lee, Albert No, Sunghwan Kim, and Hosung Park

Bioinformatics, 2021 (Rank #1 in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Google scholar)

Workshop

• CrossMPT: Cross-attention message passing transformer for error correcting codes

Seong-Joon Park, Hee-Youl Kwak, Sang-Hyo Kim, Yongjune Kim, and Jong-Seon No

IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (IEEE CTW), May 2025. (poster) 

Reviewer

• IEEE Communications Magazine

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

Awards & Honors

• • Best Paper Award, 34th Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI) Apr. 2024

  • Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Korea Research Foundation Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025

  • Silver Prize, 30th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ($10,000) Feb. 2024

  • Excellence Award, 15th ICT Thesis Contest Grand Prize ($3,000) Nov. 2023

  • Samsung Electronics Ph.D. Scholarship Recipient Sep. 2021 - Feb. 2024

Research Projects

• • Advanced channel coding and channel estimation technologies for wireless communication evolution, Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025

    1. • National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT

• • Channel coding and learning-based resource optimization for high-density and high-performance SSD, Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025

    1. • Samsung Electronics 

• • Development of High-performance, high-reliability DNA Memory Software & Hardware, Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2024

    1. • Pioneer Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning

• Chip Interconnect Solutions, Jun. 2021 - Feb. 2024

  • 1. • Samsung Electronics

       • Low latency design of error correcting codes for ultra-high speed chip interconnect.

• • Channel coding for high-density SSD, Sep. 2020 - Feb. 2024

    1. • Samsung Electronics

• Error Control Coding for DNA Storage, Sep. 2019 - Nov. 2022

  • 1. • Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center of Samsung Electronics

Invited Talks

• "Transformer-based decoders - Universal decoder", KICS-NA, San Diego Feb. 2025

• "Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes", Theory Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong Oct. 2024

• "Transformer-based error correcting code decoders", Sungkyunkwan Univ Jul. 2023

Experience

• • Samsung Electronics

    • • Staff Engineer Mar. 2025 - Present

• • Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

    • • Postdoctoral Researcher in Institute of Artificial Intelligence Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025

Education

• • Seoul National University (SNU)

    • • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2024

• • Seoul National University (SNU)

    • • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2020

• Sogang University

  • B.S. in Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) Mar. 2014 - Feb. 2019