Principal investigator

Short Biography

Seongah Jeong received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2010, 2012 and 2015, respectively. She is currently Associate Professor of School of Advanced Fusion Studies in University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea. From 2019 to 2024, she was Assistant/Associate Professor of School of Electronics Engineering of Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. From 2017 to 2019, she was a Senior Engineer of Service Standards Lab of Next-generation Communications Research Center of Samsung Research, Seoul, Korea, where she worked on global UWB/IoT/WiFi standardization for IEEE, Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), FiRa Consortium, Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), etc. She also developed the PHY/MAC core technologies for UWB digital key systems, Access, LBS, asset tracking, D2D in collaboration with global partner companies on practical wireless communication issues. From 2015 to 2016, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Information and Electronics Research Institute of KAIST. She was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2017. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Visiting Scholar with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA. She was an intern at Electria-Wireless Sensor Network Lab of Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Vantaa, Finland, in 2009. Her research interests include signal processing and optimization for wireless localization and wireless communications, edge/fog  computing and biology. 

Dr. Jeong has been recognized with awards, including IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2021 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the Silver Prize (2015) and the Bronze Prize (2014) in the Samsung Human Tech Thesis Award, KAIST Research Excellence Award (2015), etc. She is an active reviewer of global scientific journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technol., IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, , IEEE Access, ICT express, ETRI Journal, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and so on. 

Awards

 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2021 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award 

 Bronze, IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contest, 2024 

Bronze, Undergraduate paper contest, KIIT, 2020

Annual Honor Roll Award for Excellent Doctoral Student in Research Performance Evaluation System, KAIST, 2015

Silver, the 21st Samsung Human Tech Paper Award, 2015

Bronze, the 20th Samsung Human Tech Paper Award, 2014

Students grants, IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2012

Research Interests

Signal Processing and Optimization for

Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, AI-RAN, Radar sensing,  Localization, Aerospace & Vehicular network

Machine learning/Deep learning for

Medical image processing, Interference modeling & mitigation 

Technical Activities

Invited Talk, @ Seoul National University, 2025

Invited Talk, Women Committee Session @ KICS Summer Conference, 2024

Invited Talk, Fall Colloquium @ Jeonbuk National University, 2023  

Invited Talk, 6G Workshop of KIEES (한국전자파학회) 2022  

Invited Talk, Spring Colloquium @ Chung-Ang University, 2022  

Invited talk, ICT Colloquium Conference Session, 2021

Invited Talk, International Conference on Convergence BIEN 2021

Invited Talk, Autumn Annual Conference of IEIE (대한전자공학회 우수연구자세션) 2021

Vice-chair of Women in Engineering, IEEE Seoul Section 2025

Associate editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society  (OJ-COMS)

Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Recent Advances of Cloud, Edge, and Parallel Computing", Electronics

Editor of the Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (J-KICS)

Treasurer of IEEE Taegu Section 2023-2024

Evaluation Committee for Korean Intellectual Property Service Center (KISTA) 

Workshop chair of IEEE WCNC 2026 Workshop "Holistic 6G Radio Design"

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2026

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2026) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2025) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of 2025 IEEE 11th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC)  2025

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC 2025) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2025) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of International Conference on AI in Information and Communication (ICAIIC) 2025  

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 2025 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC)  2024

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)  2024

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2023) 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC)  2023

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2022  

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)  2022

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE/IEIE ICCE-Asia 2020 

Technical Program Committee (TPC) of KRnet2020