PROFESSOR

Hwanjin Kim (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from POSTECH, in 2017 and 2019, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, in 2022. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the School of Electronics Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Purdue University. His research interests include the design and analysis of massive MIMO communication systems and machine learning for communications. Dr. Kim was a co-recipient of the 2018 JCCI Best Paper Award and the 2020 Electronic News ICT Paper Contest Best Paper Award. He was awarded the IDIS-Electronic News ICT Paper Contest Outstanding Paper Award in 2017, the KAIST EE Best Research Achievement Award (Kim Choong-Ki Award) in 2020, the IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Silver Prize in 2021, and the KAIST EE Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2022. He was a recipient of the NRF Korea Post-Doctoral Overseas Training (2023–2024), the NRF Korea Research Subsidies of Ph.D. Candidates (2021–2022), the 2021 KAIST Global Leader Fellowship (Kim Younghan Fellowship), and the 2022 KAIST Global Leadership Award (Creativity). He was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS in 2018. 

Kyungpook National University, South Korea, Sep. 2024 - Present (경북대학교, 2024.09-)

• Assistant Professor, School of Electronics Engineering          

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Sep. 2023 - Aug. 2024 (퍼듀대학교, 2023.09-2024.08)

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Advisor: Prof. David J. Love

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023 (한국과학기술원, 2022.09-2023.08)

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Information Electronics

• Advisor: Prof. Junil Choi

• 2023 NRF Post-Doctoral Overseas Training (2023.09~2024.08)

• 2022 KAIST EE Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award

• 2022 KAIST Global Leadership Award (Category: Creativity)

• 2021 IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest Silver Prize (Tied for 4th Place)

• 2021 KAIST Global Leader Fellowship (Kim Younghan Fellowship)

• 2021 NRF Korea Research Subsidies for Ph.D. Candidates (2021.06~2022.05)

• 2020 KAIST EE Best Research Achievement Award (Kim Choong-Ki Award)

• 2020 12th Electronic News ICT Paper Contest, Best Award (2nd Place) [Link1] [Link2]

• 2018 IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewers [Link]

• 2018 KICS JCCI Best Paper Award (Huawei Award).

• 2017 9th IDIS-Electronic News ICT Paper Contest, Outstanding Award (3rd Place)  [Link]

• 2010 Presidential Science Scholarship (2010.03~2012.02, 2015.03~2017.02)

Conference Committee

Technical program committee, International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC) 2023

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Communications Letters (CL)

• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL)

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)

• IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS)

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

• IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)

• IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)

• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Communications and Networking (TCCN)

• IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN)

• IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)

• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP)

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN)

• ETRI Journal

Conference Reviewer

• IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, WCNC, SPAWC, ICASSP, ICNC, Asilomar

• 통신학회 하계종학학술발표회,  여성위원회 특별세션, "Over-the-Air Federated Learning Under Imperfect CSI," Jun. 19, 2025.

• ICTC 2024, Tutorial session, "Federated Learning via Over-the-air Computation," Oct. 16, 2024.

• ETRI, "Robust Over-the-Air Federated Learning," Jul. 5, 2024.

• POSTECH, EE Seminar, "Machine learning-based channel prediction: Temporal channel prediction and environmental adaptation," Nov. 30, 2023.