Song Min Kim / 김성민
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
Director, SMILE (SMart and mobILE) Lab
songmin@kaist.ac.kr
Address: 913 N1 building, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
Song Min Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, leading the SMILE (SMart and MobILE) lab. He currently focuses on co-designing hardware and software for mobile systems and battery-free devices towards massive communication, ultra-precision sensing, and intelligent interactions. Also, he had been putting effort into developing a new area of cross-technology communication (CTC) from his early work in MobiCom '15. He received the best paper awards in ACM MobiSys 2022 and IEEE ICDCS 2018. He serves/served on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM ToN and ACM TOSN, and TPC for MobiCom and NSDI. Before joining KAIST, he was with the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University.
Latest Research
mmWave Backscatter
1000+ massive concurrent communication and sub-cm to sub-mm ultra-precision localization (Details)
MobiSys '22, Best Paper Award
MobiSys '23, Best Paper Finalist
MobiSys '24
NSDI '24
Next Generation Mobile Networking
Building reliable next-G systems including reconfigurable metasurfaces (Details)
NSDI '24
CoNEXT '22, Best Paper Finalist
Security '19
Battery-free AI of Things
Battery-free systems towards ambient intelligence, available everywhere and for everyone (Details)
MobiSys '20
IPSN '23
More Topics
Cross-Tech. Communication (Details): MobiCom '20, SenSys '20, MobiCom '18, ICDCS '18 (Best Paper Award), MobiSys '18, SenSys '17, INFOCOM '17 x2, MobiCom '15
Low-power Wireless Coexistence: ICDCS '20, SenSys '19, SenSys '18, SenSys '15, INFOCOM '15, MobiCom '13
Selected Conference/Magazine Publications (Full List)
[ACM MobiSys'24] SuperSight: Sub-cm NLOS Localization for mmWave Backscatter
[USENIX NSDI'24] NR-Surface: NextG-ready µW-reconfigurable mmWave Metasurface
[USENIX NSDI'24] mmComb: High-speed mmWave Commodity WiFi Backscatter
[ACM GetMobile'24] OmniScatter: Extreme Sensitivity mmWave Backscattering Using Commodity FMCW Radar
[ACM MobiSys'23] Hawkeye: Hectometer-range Subcentimeter Localization for Large-scale mmWave Backscatter (Best Paper Finalist)
[ACM/IEEE IPSN'23] Mosaic: Extremely Low-resolution RFID Vision for Visually-anonymized Action Recognition (Outstanding Paper Award by Institute of Embedded Engineering of Korea)
[ACM MobiSys'22] OmniScatter: Extreme Sensitivity mmWave Backscattering Using Commodity FMCW Radar (Best Paper Award, SIGMOBILE Research Highlight)
[Paper] [Teaser] [Talk] [SIGMOBILE Research Highlight]
[ACM CoNEXT'22] Co-optimizing for Flow Completion Time in Radio Access Network (Best Paper Finalist)
[ACM SenSys'20] X-MIMO: Cross-Technology Multi-User MIMO
[Paper] [Teaser] [Cross-technology Channel Estimation Tool]
[ACM MobiCom'20] SDR Receiver Using Commodity WiFi via Physical-Layer Signal Reconstruction
[ACM MobiSys'20] Gateway over the Air: Towards Pervasive Internet Connectivity for Commodity IoT
[IEEE ICDCS'20] SafetyNet: Interference Protection via Transparent PHY Layer Coding
[USENIX Security'19] Hiding in Plain Signal: Physical Signal Overshadowing Attack on LTE
[ACM SenSys'18] Exploiting WiFi Guard Band for Safeguarded ZigBee
[ACM MobiCom'18] Achieving Receiver-Side Cross-Technology Communication with Cross-Decoding,
[IEEE ICDCS'18] Symbol-level Cross-technology Communication via Payload Encoding (Best Paper Award)
[ACM MobiSys'18] Explicit Channel Coordination via Cross-technology Communication
[ACM SenSys'17] BlueBee: a 10,000x Faster Cross-Technology Communication
[IEEE INFOCOM'17] C-Morse: Cross-Technology Communication with Transparent Morse Coding
[IEEE INFOCOM'17] Transparent Cross-technology Communication over Data Traffic
[ACM MobiCom'15] FreeBee: Cross-technology Communication via Free Side-channel
[ACM SenSys'15] cETX: Incorporating Spatiotemporal Correlation for Better Wireless Networking
[IEEE INFOCOM'15] Exploiting Causes and Effects of Wireless Link Correlation for Better Performance
[IEEE ICNP'14] Correlated Coding: Efficient Network Coding under Correlated Unreliable Wireless Links
[ACM MobiCom'13] Corlayer: A transparent link correlation layer for energy efficient broadcast
[IEEE INFOCOM'13] PSR: Practical Synchronous Rendezvous in Low-duty-cycle Wireless Networks
[IEEE ICNP'11] Correlated Flooding in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks
Academic Appointments
Feb. 2019 - Present: Assistant/Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, KAIST
Aug. 2016 - Jan. 2019: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, George Mason University
Services
Associate Editor, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking '22 - Present
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks '23 - Present
Registration Co-chair, ACM MobiCom '24
TPC, ACM MobiCom '21, '22, '24
TPC, ACM SenSys '24
Workshop Co-chair, IEEE MASS '24
TPC, IEEE INFOCOM '19-'24 (Advisory TPC '21-'24, Distinguished Reviewer '20,'19)
TPC, USENIX NSDI '23
TPC Co-chair, ICMU '23
TPC, ACM WinTech ’23-’21
TPC, IEEE ICDCS '21
TPC, IEEE WCNC ’21-’20
TPC, ACM CoNEXT’20
ACM SIGCOMM’20 (Posters and Demos)
TPC, IEEE/ACM IWQoS ’20-’19
TPC, IEEE SECON ’20
Student Travel Grant Co-chair, MobiSys ’19
TPC, IEEE MASS ’19
TPC, EEE VTC’19-Spring
Program Co-chair, IEEE MiSeNet’18 (in conjunction with INFOCOM’18)
TPC, ACM SenSys ’18 (Light)
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2016 (Advisor: Prof. Tian He)
Dissertation: IoT Networking: From Coexistence to Collaboration (Selected for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship)BS, MS, Electrical Engineering, Korea University, 2007, 2009
Current Graduate Students
Geonha Park (Ph.D., Sep. 2020-)
Kang Min Bae (Ph.D.+ MS Joint, Mar 2021-)
Namjo Ahn (Ph.D.+ MS Joint, Mar 2021-)
Hyeonho Shin (Ph.D., Mar 2022-)
Hankyeol Moon (Ph.D.+ MS Joint, Mar 2022-)
Seungwoo Shim (Ph.D.+ MS Joint, Mar 2022-)
Minseok Kim (Ph.D., Mar 2023-)
Haksun Son (Ph.D.+ MS Joint, Mar 2023-)
Seokwon Yang (MS, Mar 2021-) Leave of absence
Junbeom Park (MS, Sep 2022-)
Geonung Lee (MS, Mar 2024-)
Awards and Recognitions
Best Paper Award, ACM MobiSys 2022
SIGMOBILE Research Highlight, 2023
Teaching Award (EE414 Embedded Systems), School of EE, KAIST
International Cooperation Award, KAIST 2022
Best Paper Award, IEEE ICDCS 2018
Selected for Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2016
Teaching (Details)
EE595 Mobile Computing and Systems for Intelligent Living (F '23, '21)
EE414 Embedded Systems (S '22, '21, F '19)
EE323 Computer Networks (S '20, S '19)
EE209 Programming Structure for Electrical Engineering (F '22, F '20)