THE SHIN LAB @ KOREA UNIV 

About US

Welcome to THE SHIN Laboratory in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. 

Our laboratory focuses on the research field in the Next-Generation of Wireless Communication Systems (Beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks) and Machine Learning Applications, emphasizing information/communication theory, signal processing, and machine learning. Our current research interests include the following topics but are not limited to:

• Next-Generation Satellite Communications (LEO Constellation Networks)

• Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)

• Advanced Interference Management

• Machine Learning aided Communication System Design

• Deep Learning-based Indoor Localization

• Wireless Powered Communications Networks (WPCN)

• Tactical Information Communication Network (TICN)

우리 연구실에서는 차세대 무선통신 시스템에 대한 전반적인 연구를 수행하고 있습니다. 특히 4차 산업혁명으로 인해 사물 인터넷 (IoT) 시대에 다양하고 방대한 정보 전달 수요에 발맞춰 신개념 통신 시스템 설계 및 관련 원천 기술을 연구하고 있습니다. 무인 항공기 및 (저궤도/정지궤도) 인공위성 등의 새로운 응용 분야에 필요한 통신 및 네트워크 기술에 대해서도 연구를 수행중입니다. 

주요 연구분야: Beyond 5G 무선통신 관련 통신 이론 연구 및 머신러닝 응용

• 차세대 위성통신 시스템 (군집 저궤도 위성망)

• 차세대 비직교 다중사용자 접속 기술 (RSMA, NOMA)

• 다중 사용자 간섭제어 이론적 성능 분석 및 알고리즘 

• 머신러닝 기반 무선통신 송/수신기 설계

• 저궤도/중궤도(GNSS) 위성 기반 실내외 측위 기술

• 차세대 전술네트워크 구축 및 운영 (군통신)

Latest NEWS

• Jaehup Seong has been selected for the 2025 Ph.D. Student Research Scholarship (박사과정생연구장려금지원) by the National Research Foundation (25백만원/연). Congratulations!

• Our video podcast episode (on Integrated Sensing and Communications and Non-Terrestrial Networks) recorded in London with Prof. Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, UK) appears at the IEEE Communications Society Technology News (CTN)  [IEEE's YouTube], [IEEE CTN].

• The paper, "A Bistatic ISAC Framework for LEO Satellite Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Aug. 2025 [OPEN ACCESS]. This is a collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and ShanghaiTech University, China.  

• Three papers from our group have been accepted for presentation at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, which will be held in Taiwan. Congratulations to all the co-authors!

• Prof. Shin has been appointed Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), starting August 1, 2025.

• Haejung Kim has been awarded KICS Summer Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 학부 우수논문상) in June 2025.

• Sajad Faramarzi has been awarded the KICS Summer Conference Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문상) in Jan. 2025.

• The paper, "Towards 6G Evolution: Three Enhancements, Three Innovations, and Three Major Challenges," has been accepted by IEEE Network Magazine, May 2025 [arXiv].

• Prof. Shin has been appointed Guest Editor for a Special Issue on 6G From the Sky: Enhancing Connectivity via Non-Terrestrial Networks in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine [Link].

• Prof. Shin has been appointed as Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Non-Terrestrial Networks in the 6G Era in npj Wireless Technology (Nature Portfolio) [Link].

• Prof. Shin has been appointed as Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Feb. 2025 [Link].

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been reappointed as Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Vincent Poor (Mar. 2025 through Feb. 2026)

• The paper, "Rate Matching Precoder Design for RSMA-Based Multibeam LEO Satellite Communications," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Feb. 2025 [Link]. 

• Juha Park has been awarded the Silver Prize in the 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Awards (삼성휴먼테크논문대상 Communication & Networks 분과 은상) in Feb. 2025, marking a second consecutive win following last year’s success! [Link].

• The paper, "Rate-Splitting for Joint Unicast and Multicast Transmission in LEO Satellite Networks with Non-Uniform Traffic Demand," has been published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC Special Issue on Integrated Ground-Air-Space Wireless Networks for 6G Mobile, IF: 13.8), Jan. 2025 [Link]. Big congrats! [뉴데일리], [대학저널], [뉴시스], [베리타스알파] 외 10건

• Our group has been selected for Samsung’s Future Tech Fostering Projects (삼성미래기술육성사업) on 6G Wideband LEO Satellite Access Networks, which are funded by the Samsung Research Funding Center of Samsung Electronics (Dec. 2024 - Nov. 2027) [Link]. Big congrats! [이데일리], [매일일보], [아시아타임즈], [대학저널], [뉴시스], [베리타스알파] 외 3건

• Prof. Shin has been selected as a recipient of the Excellent Teaching Award, Spring 2024 (고려대학교 우수강의상, 24년 1학기), Korea University, Nov. 2024.

• Dr. Khai N. Doan and Jaehyup Seong have been awarded the KICS Summer Conference Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문상) in Nov. 2024.

• Jaehyup Seong has been awarded the Excellence Award in the ETRI 6G Technology Festival 2024 (6G 원천기술 페스티벌 우수상) in Oct. 2024 [Link]. 

• Prof. Shin is a TPC member for the IEEE ICC 2025 (Montreal, Canada) Communication Theory (CT) Symposium, Signal Processing for Communications (SPC) Symposium, and SAC Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces & Smart Environments. 

• The paper, "A Double-Difference Doppler Shift-Based Positioning Framework with Ephemeris Error Correction of LEO Satellites," has been accepted by IEEE Systems Journal, Sept. 2024 [arXiv]. 

• The paper, "Cooperative Learning-Based Framework for VNF Caching and Placement Optimization over Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Sept. 2024 [arXiv]. This is joint work with Prof. Ioannis Lambadaris at Carleton University, Canada. 

• Sangmin Han (한상민) has been awarded the 2024 Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Students in Korea (관정이종환교육재단 19기 국내 대학원생 장학생). Big Congrats! [News], [Link].

• The paper, "Rate-Splitting for Joint Unicast and Multicast Transmission in LEO Satellite Networks with Non-Uniform Traffic Demand," has been accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC Special Issue on Integrated Ground-Air-Space Wireless Networks for 6G Mobile, IF: 13.8), Aug. 2024 [arXiv].

• The paper, "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for GEO-LEO Coexisting Satellite Systems: Traffic-Aware Throughput Maximization Precoder Design," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Aug. 2024 [arXiv].

• The paper, "Max-Min Fair Energy-Efficient Beam Design for Quantized ISAC LEO Satellite Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2024 [arXiv], which is a joint work with Prof. Bruno Cleckx at Imperial College London, UK.  

• Our invited paper on Satellite Direct-to-Cell Connectivity Towards 6G: Satellite Meets Cellular has been published at Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (정보과학회지), June 2024. Please check out our paper (in Korean) [Link]. 

• Our recent video lecture series (including international conferences, invited talks, etc.) are now available on the MEDIA page (next to the publications tab). 

• Jaehyup Seong (성재협) and Juha Park (박주하) have been awarded the 2024 Presidential Science Scholarship (대학원 제 1기 대통령과학장학금 장학생). Big Congrats! [News1], [News2]

• The paper, "Distributed Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Multilayer Satellite Communications," has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications, Apr. 2024 [arXiv], which is a joint work with Prof. Bruno Cleckx at Imperial College London, UK. 

• The paper, "Wi-MIR: A CSI Dataset for Wi-Fi Based Multi-Person Interaction Recognition," has been accepted by IEEE Access, Apr. 2024. A CSI dataset for WiFi based Multi-Person Interection Recognition  is now publicly available [CSI Dataset], [Paper]. 

• Prof. Shin has been selected as one of the IEEE Featured Authors that appeared on the IEEE Xplore front page. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization, with over 460,000 members in over 190 countries [Link], [Screenshot]. 

• Our new magazine article, "Integrated Sensing and Communications for IoT: Synergies with Key 6G Technology Enablers," has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Apr. 2024 [arXiv].

• The paper, "A GDOP-Based Low-Complexity LEO Satellite Subset Selection for Positioning," has been accepted by IEEE Systems Journal, Mar. 2024.

• Prof. Shin serves for the IEEE ComSoc Asia/Pacific Region Board as Vice-chair of the Chapters Coordination Committee (2024-2025) [Link].

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been reappointed as Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Vincent Poor (Mar. 2024 through Feb. 2025)

• The paper, "RIS-Empowered LEO Satellite Networks for 6G: Promising Usage Scenarios and Future Directions," has been accepted by IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 11.2), Feb. 2024 [arXiv]. 

• Juha Park has been awarded the Silver Prize in the 30th Samsung Humantech Paper Awards (삼성휴먼테크논문대상 Communication & Networks 분과 은상) in Feb. 2024 [Link].

• Sangmin Han has been awarded KICS Haedong Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 해동우수논문 우수상) in Feb. 2024.

• Our video podcast episode (on NTN for 6G and RSMA) in IEEE Globecom 2023 with Prof. Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, UK) appears at the IEEE Communications Society Technology News (CTN)  [IEEE's YouTube], [IEEE CTN].

• The paper, "Access-Backhaul Strategy via gNB Cooperation for Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite Networks," has been accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC Special Issue on Space Communications New Frontiers: From Near Earth to Deep Space, IF: 16.4), Dec. 2023. This is a joint work with Prof. Moe Win's group at MIT, USA. 

• Our new magazine article, "Towards Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G: Key Enabling Technologies, Standardization, and Challenges," has been accepted to IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Dec. 2023 .

• "A Short Video Clip on NTN and RSMA @ IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)," is available on YouTube, Dec. 2023. Don't forget to like and subscribe! [Link]

• Prof. Shin is serving for the IEEE ICC 2024 workshop (Denver, USA) and IEEE WCNC 2024 workshop (Dubai, UAE) on Integrated, Intelligent, and Ubiquitous Connectivity for 6G and Beyond as a TPC chair. 

• Prof. Shin is serving for IEEE ICC 2024 (Denver, USA) - Communication Theory Symposium and Wireless Communications Symposium as a TPC member. 

• The paper "Coordinated Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks with Super-Common Message" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.8), Sept. 2023 [arXiv]. 

• Our new magazine article, "Indexed Multiple Access with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: The Reflection Tuning Potential," has been accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 11.2), Sept. 2023 [arXiv].

• Shin LAB moved to the School of Electrical Engineering (also with the Department of Communication Engineering), Korea University, in September 2023. 

• Our RSMA magazine article "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G Networks: Ten Promising Scenarios and Applications" has been accepted to IEEE Network Magazine (IF: 9.3), July 2023 [arXiv]. 

• Prof. Shin will deliver a Tutorial on on-Terrestrial Networks for the Next Generation Global Connectivity, together with Dr. Aryan Kaaushik (University of Sussex, UK), Prof. Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, UK) at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Dec. 2023.

• Prof. Shin visited MIT WIRELESS INFORMATION AND NETWORK SCIENCES LABORATORY (WINS Lab), Cambridge, MA, in July 2023, hosted by Prof. Moe Win.

• The paper entitled "Sum-Rate Maximization of RSMA-based Aerial Communications with Energy Harvesting: A Reinforcement Learning Approach" has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters  (IF: 5.281), June 2023 [arXiv]. 

• The paper entitled "Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Quantized Multiuser MIMO Communications" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications  (IF: 8.346), Mar. 2023.

• Jaehyup Seong has been awarded KICS Haedong Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 해동우수논문 최우수상) in Feb. 2023.

• Juha Park has been awarded KICS Autumn Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 추계종합학술발표회 학부 최우수논문상) in Feb. 2023.

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been reappointed as Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Vincent Poor (Mar. 2023 through Feb. 2024)

• Prof. Shin delivered a talk on satellites for 6G in the RSMA webinar series sponsored by IEEE ComSoc (Link).

• Prof. Shin visited Imperial College London hosted by Prof. Bruno Clerckx from Dec. 2022 through Jan. 2023.

• Prof. Shin will deliver a Tutorial on Internet-of-Space-Things: Advanced Global Connectivity for 6G, together with Dr. Aryan Kaaushik (University of Sussex, UK), Prof. Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Prof. Rongke Liu (Shenzhen Institute of Beihang University, China),  at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, UK in Mar. 2023.

• Prof. Shin is serving as General Chair for the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G," at the IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, UK in Mar. 2023.  

• The paper entitled "Outage Analysis of Alamouti-NOMA Scheme for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Relay Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.238) in Nov. 2022. This is joint work with Prof. Mojtaba Vazei (Villanova University, USA).

• Dr. Kabir, Mr. Lee, and Prof. Shin have been awarded  ICTC Best Workshop Paper Award (13th International Conference on ICT Convergence) in Oct. 2022 [Photo, News1, News2]. 

• Dr. Toka has been awarded KICS Summer Conference Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문상) in Nov. 2022.

• Songmin Cheon has been awarded KICS Summer Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 학부 우수논문상) in Nov. 2022.

• The paper entitled "Max-Min Fair Precoder Design and Power Allocation for Rate-Splitting Multiple Access: Impact of Imperfect Channel Knowledge" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IF: 6.239), Sept. 2022.

• The paper entitled "Rate Splitting Multiple Access for Downlink MIMO: A Generalized Power Iteration Approach" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 8.346), Sept. 2022.

• Jaehak Ryu has been awarded KICS Haedong Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 해동우수논문상) in June. 2022 [News1, News2]

• Jaehyup Seong and Sangmin Han have been awarded KICS Winter Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 동계종합학술발표회 학부 우수논문상) in June. 2022 [News1, News2]

• Wonjae Shin is organizing the "Workshop on Reconfigurable Holographic and Intelligent Surfaces for Green 6G Sensing, Communication and Networking" at IEEE PIMRC 2022 (as TPC Co-Chairs) [CFP] and at the IEEE SECON 2022 (as General Co-Chairs) [CFP]

• Wonjae Shin has been awarded Ajou University Ajou Research Award (아주대학교 연구우수교수, 2021) in May 2022.

• Dr. Humayun Kabir and Prof. Shin have been awarded JCCI 2022 (제32회 통신정보 합동학술대회) Best Paper Award on Apr. 2022 [News1, News2].

• Wonjae Shin is serving as Guest Editor for the IET Signal Processing Special Issue on Signal Processing for Green and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Aided 6G (Submission Due: Aug. 2022, Lead guest editor: Prof. Aryan Kaushik, University of Sussex, UK) [CFP].

• Our lab has been moved to Won-Cheon Hall 432 (Mar. 1, 2022).

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been promoted to Associate Professor from Mar. 2022. 

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been reappointed as Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Vincent Poor (Mar. 2022 through Feb. 2023)

• The paper entitled "High-Speed Train Positioning Using Deep Kalman Filter with 5G NR Signals," has been accepted to IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions (IF: 6.492, Q1), Jan. 2022. This is joint work with KRRI (Korea Railroad Research Institute, 한국철도기술연구원).

• Our invited paper on 6G LEO satellites with emphasis on Doppler shift has been published at KICS Information & Communications Magazine (정보와 통신), Jan. 2022. Please check out our paper (in Korean) [Link]. 

• The paper entitled "CSI-IANet: An Inception Attention Network for Human-Human Interaction Recognition Based on CSI Signal" has been accepted to IEEE Access (IF: 3.367, Q2), Dec. 2021.

• Wonjae Shin has been awarded J-KICS Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 논문지 우수논문상) in Nov. 2021, together with Prof. Byungju Lee, Namyoon Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim [News], [Photo1], [Photo2].

• The paper entitled "Relay Power Control for In-Band Full-Duplex Decode-and-Forward Relay Networks over Static and Time-Varying Channels," has been accepted to IEEE Systems Journal (IF: 3.931, Q1), Nov. 2021.

• Wonjae Shin is co-organizing IEEE ICC 2022 Workshop on Rate-Splitting and Next Generation Multiple Access at IEEE ICC 2022 in Seoul, Korea, together with Prof. Yijie (Lina) Mao (ShanghaiTech University, China), and Prof. Seok-Hwan Park (Jeonbuk National University, South Korea)

• Wonjae Shin is co-organizing Workshop on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for 6G at IEEE WCNC 2022 in Austin, USA, together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx, Dr. Yijie (Lina) Mao (Imperial College London, UK), and Prof. Aydin Sezgin (RUB, Germany)

• Prof. Wonjae Shin is serving as Guest Editor for the ICT Express Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches to Communication (Submission Due: Oct. 2021, Lead guest editor: Prof. Youngchul Sung) [CFP].

• The paper entitled "Shallow Reinforcement Learning for Energy Harvesting Communications with Imperfect Channel Knowledge" has been accepted to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IF: 6.856, Q1), June 2021.

• Our group is funded by the following nine grants (500K USD/year) since 2021. We deeply appreciate it.

  1. K-Starlink: 동적 재구성 가능한 지능형 위성-지상 통합 네트워크 핵심 기술연구 (2021.06~2024.02, 한국연구재단 기초연구실) [News]

  2. 지능형 6G 무선 액세스 시스템 (2021.05~2025.12, 정보통신기획평가원)

  3. 저궤도 군집 소형 위성 간 통신 기술 개발 (2021.05~2028.12, 정보통신기획평가원) [News]

  4. 전투실험 연구용역 사업 (2021.05~2021.10, 육군정보통신학교)

  5. 한국통신학회 신임교원 학술연구 지원 사업 (2021.05~2023.04, 한국통신학회) [News]

  6. 저궤도 군집위성 통신을 위한 6G 이동통신 시스템 (2021.03~2024.02, 아주대학교 신임교수정착금)

  7. 신개념 비-직교 다중사용자 접속기술: 딥러닝 기반 신호-간섭 분할 기법 (2018.03~2022.02, 한국연구재단 우수신진연구)

  8. Rethinking Wireless Interference: Interference-Free Multiple Access for Wideband MIMO Communication Systems (2020.07~2022.06, 미국 해군연구청)

  9. BK21 FOUR program (2021.03~2027.02, 아주대학교 AI융합네트워크학과)

• The paper entitled "Joint Power Allocation and Scheduling Techniques for BER Minimization in Multiuser MIMO Systems" has been accepted to IEEE Access (IF: 3.745, Q1), Apr. 2021.

• Prof. Wonjae Shin has been reappointed as Visiting Research Collaborator in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University (Mar. 2021 through Feb. 2022)

• Given the interests and increasing activities on Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for beyond 5G, we have created a new IEEE ComSoc WTC Special Interest Group together with Prof. Bruno Clerckx (Chair)'s group at Imperial College London, UK.

• Prof. Wonjae Shin and his group will move to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Ajou University, Korea (March 2021).

• The paper entitled "C-CNNLoc: Constrained-CNN for robust indoor localization with building boundary," has been accepted to Electronics Letters, Feb. 2020. Thanks and many congrats to co-authors, Yongjeong Oh (undergraduate researcher, the first author) and Hea-Min Noh.

• The paper entitled "Sum-Throughput Maximization in NOMA-Based WPCN: A Cluster-Specific Beamforming Approach," has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.936), Dec. 2020.

• The paper entitled "Maximum Throughput Design for IRS-NOMA based Wireless Powered Communications Networks," has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters  (IF: 4.66, Q1), Dec. 2020.

• Nohgeom Ha has been awarded KICS Summer Conference Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회우수논문상) in Nov. 2020.

• Yong Jeong Oh and Hea-Min Noh have been awarded KICS Summer Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회학부 우수논문) in Nov. 2020. 

• The paper entitled "Maximizing Throughput in FDD Multi-Antenna Wireless Powered Communication Networks," has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.936), Oct. 2020.

• Wonjae Shin has been selected as the 2020 recipients of the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award (IEEE 젊은연구자상) in Oct. 2020. This award honors young researchers who have been active in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference activities over the last 3 years.  [전자신문, 연합뉴스, 서울경제, 부산일보 등]

• The paper entitled "On the Degrees-of-Freedom for Relay-Aided MIMO Interference Channels with Partial and Delayed CSI," has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IF: 4.66), Oct. 2020. 

• The paper entitled "On the Design of Tailored Neural Network for Energy Harvesting NOMA Broadcast Channel: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," has been accepted to IEEE Access, Sept. 2020. 

• The paper entitled "Joint Time Allocation for Wireless Energy Harvesting Decode-and-Forward Relay Based IoT Networks with Rechargeable and Non-Rechargeable Batteries," has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.936), Aug. 2020.

• Jihye Ahn was awarded KICS Haedong Best Paper Award (한국통신학회 해동우수논문상) in Aug. 2020 

• The paper entitled "Optimized Shallow Neural Networks for Sum-Rate Maximization in Energy Harvesting Downlink" has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 11.420), July 2020.

• Wonjae Shin and co-authors Mojtaba Vaezi (Villanova University, USA), Byungju Lee (Samsung Research, Korea), Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea), and David J. Love (Purdue University, USA), and H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA) have been selected as the 2020 recipients of the IEEE Communication Society's Fred W. Ellersick Prize. The award is given to the most influential paper in any Communications Society magazine in the previous 3 calendar years.  Prof. Shin will receive the award at the IEEE ICC 2020 conference in June 2020. [전자신문, 부산일보, 국제신문 등]

• The paper entitled "Blind Interference Alignment with ISI: A New Look at OFDM for K-User Interference Channels,"  has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in May 2020. 

• Our two papers appeared in IEEE Best Readings in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access - Topic: Overviews and Tutorials and Multiple Antenna Aided NOMA (Apr. 2020).

• Wonjae Shin is co-organizing Workshop on Rate-Splitting and Robust Interference Management for Beyond 5G at IEEE PIMRC '20 in London, UK.

• Wonjae Shin is awarded The Outstanding Researcher Award from PNU BK-21 Plus (Mar. 2020).

• Wonjae Shin has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, which is an honor bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession, and fewer than 10 percent of IEEE members achieve this level of recognition (Feb. 2020).

• Wonjae Shin is recognized as IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer 2019. Fewer than 2 percent  of all IEEE TCOM reviewers in 2019 receive this recognition for their high quality of reviews (Feb. 2020).

• Jungwoo Do was awarded KICS Winter Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Awards (한국통신학회 동계학술발표회 학부 우수논문) in Feb. 2020. 

• Wonjae Shin is serving for JCCI (The 30th Joint Conference on Communications and Information), which will be held in Busan as a Program Committee.

• Wonjae Shin is going to visit Imperial College London hosted by Prof. Bruno Clerckx from Dec. 2019 through Jan. 2020.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for 6th NOMA Workshop at IEEE ICC'20, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland, as a TPC member.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on Rate-Splitting and Robust Interference Management for Beyond 5G, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland, as a TPC member.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for 2019 KICS-Korea-Vietnam International Joint Workshop on Communications and Information Sciences, which will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam in Nov. 2019, as a TPC member.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for Track 1: Phy & Fundamentals for IEEE WCNC 2020 as a TPC member.

• The paper entitled "Power Allocation in Cache-Aided NOMA Systems: Optimization and Deep-Learning Approaches,"  has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications in Sept. 2019.

• The paper entitled "Sum-Rate Maximization with QoS Constraints for Cooperative WPCNs," has been accepted to IEEE Access in July 2019.

• Wonjae Shin is appointed by an Associate Editor for the new IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEE OJ-COM) in July 2019 [Link]. 

• The paper entitled "Harvest-Or-Access: Slotted ALOHA for Wireless Powered Communication Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in July 2019.

• Our group has been awarded the Korean Institute of Power Electronics Award (전력전자학회장상) at Intelligent Electronics Contest in July 2019 [News].

• Our group has been awarded the 2019 NRF Initial Innovation Lab. (한국연구재단 최초혁신실험실) with 100K USD in June 2019 [News].

• Our book Hayt의 회로이론 9판 (Engineering Circuit Analysis, 9th edition)  is now live! 

• The paper entitled "Securing Relaying in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access: Trusted and Untrusted Scenarios," has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IF: 5.824) in Apr. 2019. 

• Our group is funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (신진연구자지원사업) for 3 years (100K USD/year) since Mar. 2019.

• Wonjae Shin was awarded  2018 Highly Cited Paper Award at SNU ECE in Dec. 2018 [News].

• Wonjae Shin was awarded  Bronze Paper Award at IEEE Student Paper Contest (Seoul Section) in Nov. 2018.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for Workshop on Rate-Splitting for 5G and Beyond at IEEE ICC'19 as a TPC member.

• Our group is funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (생애 첫 연구) since Oct. 2018.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for Track 1: Phy & Fundamentals for IEEE WCNC 2019 as a TPC member.

• Wonjae Shin was awarded The Distinguished Teaching Award (Spring 2018) by Pusan National University EE Alumni Association in Sept. 2018. [Press]

• The paper entitled "Slotted ALOHA for Wireless Powered Communication Networks" has been accepted to IEEE Access in Sept. 2018.

• Wonjae Shin is serving for Machine Learning in Communiations and Signal Processing Symposium at WCSP'18 as a TPC member.

• Wonjae Shin has been introduced as one of four electrical engineering researchers from Princeton recently moved on to faculty positions at peer universities on Princeton EE website.