*ANNOUNCEMENT!

Congratulations!  Extraordinary Achievement of PhD Admissions from prominent US Universities! One of proud WiSE Lab MSEE students, Marco Marrufo received PhD Admissions in Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland for Fall 2023!

Remarkable PhD Admissions from World Top Universities in US


(1) Johns Hopkins University: Full support of tuition and Fellowship, Research Assistantship

(2) University of Maryland: Full support of Tuition and  Scholarship


WiSE Lab Founder and Chief Director, Prof. Sean Kwon also mentions that he appreciates all the efforts of Marco to reach the achievement, and passion to move forward. Prof. Sean Kwon advised Marco in Sally Casanova fellowship and McNair scholarship programs, and the co-authored conference paper won the Best Paper Award in IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems conference.

Marco had joined WiSE Lab in 2020, and one of the 2nd generation students in WiSE Lab.  He joined NanoEnergy Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Univesity and perform PhD research.  He has been involved in prgrams in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Space Flight Centers.

Congratulations! Extraordinary Achievement of Multiple PhD Admissions from World-Top Universities! One of proud WiSE Lab MSEE students, Paul Oh received PhD Admissions in University of Toronto, McGill University, Univesity of Waterloo, Purdue University, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech with Full Support of Tuition, GRA, GTA or Dean's Scholarship for Fall 2022!

Multiple PhD Admissions from World Top Universities in Canada and US


(1) University of Toronto: Full support of tuition and Graduate Research Assistantship offered by 4 Professors

(2) McGill University: Full support of Tuition and Graduate Research Assistantship

(3) University of Waterloo: Full support of Tuition and Graduate Research Assistantship

(4) Purdue University: Full support of Tuition and potential Graduate Research Assistantship

(5) University of Maryland: Full support of Tuition and Dean’s Scholarship

(6) Virginia Tech: Full support of tuition and Graduate Research Assistantship + Graduate Teaching Assistantship

WiSE Lab Founder and Chief Director, Prof. Sean Kwon also mentions that he heartfully appreciates the collaboration with and the advice of  Prof. Andreas Molisch at the University of Southern California.

Paul joined WiSE Lab when he was a junior student in 2018, and one of the 1st generation students in WiSE Lab. Recently, he has had talks, presentations and invited lectures for CSULB undergraduate and graduate students. He has also been helping WiSE Lab students and projects.


Congratulations on Another Patent Granted in 2022, for 5G Commercial Wireless Communication Standards! Following 2 granted patents in 2021, another one of the 10+ patents in pending which include Professor Sean Kwon's contributions in Next-Generation Wireless Standard group of Intel or/and Apple, was Granted on April 2022!

The next-generation wireless communication system will provide global access to information and sharing of data for numerous user equipments (UEs) and a variety of applications. Interference measurement plays an important role to assist link-adaptation and scheduling in 5th generation new radio (5G NR) systems.

In 5G NR systems, transmit and receive beamforming can be used at both the Transmission Reception Point (TRP) side and the user equipment (UE) side . The TRP and UE maintain several best TRP and UE beams for both the communication and measurement. Best beams are determined based on the channel state information (CSI), and 5G standards use channel quality information (CQI) as part of CSI. Interference measurement is an important component in extimating CQI.

This patent directly contributed to state-of-the-art commercial wireless communication standards.

Congratulations on Two Granted Patents for 5G Wireless Communication Standards! Two of the 10+ patents in pending that include Professor Sean Kwon's contributions in Intel's Next-Generation Wireless Standard gourp, have been Granted on May and August  2021!

One of the key features in Wireless Communication is utlizing a variety of Beamforming schemes and managing the transmit and receive beams.

One of the granted patents takes into account beam management reference signals for interference measurement and feedback in Multi-User MIMO systems.

Other patents of Professor Sean Kwon in Next-generation Wireless Communication are listed in the following links (Google Patents).

Patents Assigned to Intel 

Patents Assigned to Apple 

Congratulations!  WiSE Lab won the Best Paper Award in IEEE  Green Energy and Smart System Conference 2019, for the research of our Ph.D student, Son Doan under co-advising of Chief Director, Professor Sean Kwon and Department Chair, professor Henry Yeh.

Ph.D student, Son Doan under the co-advising of professor Sean Kwon has received the Best Paper Award in IEEE Green Energy and Smart System Conference 2019.  The research topic is multi-polarization multi-input multi-output (MP-MIMO) system taking into account the practical scenario of the discrete polarization state.

Dr. Son Doan also completed his Ph.D defense in this Spring 2020 semester, and have been working at Raytheon.  WiSE Lab is looking forward to future collaboration with him and his colleagues!

Congratulations!  Students under advising of Professor Sean Kwon in WiSE Lab and/or his class, won First Place Award and Third Place Award in Senior Capstone Design Team Project Competition in CSULB EE Department (May 2019). 

< First place Award - Beamforming >

< Third place Award - OFDM >

Founder and Chief Director of WiSE Lab, Professor Sean Kwon has concentrated tremendous efforts on pursuing strengthening the research capability of undergraduate students in his classes since 2017.  As a successful results, one project team won First Place Award and two more project teams were among the three nominated to Second and Third Place Awards, where one team won Third Place Award.  The Panel of Judges consisted of three ADC members from Boeing, Aerospace Corporation, and Southern California Edison along with three CSULB Faculty.  Professor Sean Kwon said, "It is my earnest pleasure advising our wonderful CSULB students, supervising interesting projects, observing significant increase of students' interests and passion for Wireless Communications, and finally being together with my students in the memorable moments."

Congratulations!  WiSE Lab won the Best Paper Award in IEEE IGESSC Conference 2018 for the research of our student researcher, Paul Oh; and Chief Director, Professor Sean Kwon.

WiSE Lab has performed the state-of-the-art research focusing on the next-generation wireless communication systems, standards, and related research fields.  We also pursue interdisciplinary research between several research areas such as green communications, smart systems, and body area network for health-care devices and wearable computing for the battle field and common lives as well.  This achievement of the Best Paper Award shows the active research work of WiSE Lab.

Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that the first author, Paul Oh, is an undergraduate student researcher planning to continue his study/research in the master's program of Calfornia State University - Long Beach, at WiSE Lab under the advising of Chief Director, Professor Sean Kwon.

WiSE Lab emphasizes the interactive training and research collaboration between Chief Director and WiSE student researschers.