Founder/Chief Director
Professor Sean (Seok-Chul) Kwon received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US in 2013. Before that, Dr. Kwon received the M.Sc degree from the University of Southern California in 2007; the B.Sc degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001. He is also the alumnus of Seoul Science High School.
Professor Sean Kwon is Associate (Tenured) Professor at California State University - Long Beach; and has been Chief Director/Founder of WiSE Lab (Wireless Systems Evolution Laboratory), since Fall 2017.
He was with Intel Corporation in Silicon Valley, in particular, Next Generation and Standards Division in Communication and Devices Group in 2015 - 2017 working on 5th generation (5G) Wireless Communication Standards, patents and the associated system design.
He received offers for postdoctoral research positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Southern California (USC); conducted postdoctoral research at Wireless Devices and Systems Group (WiDeS, Head/Founder: Professor Andreas Molisch), USC in 2014 - 2015. He has another industry experience at the R&D Institute of Pantech co., Ltd, Seoul, South Korea in 2001 to 2004, where he worked on CDMA common air interface focusing on layer-3 protocols. He was involved in several projects/proposals such as The Aerospace Corporation project; a DARPA project; an US Army Research Lab project; a NSF project; a Department of Navy project; and six mobile-station projects for Motorola and Sprint, which were successfully on the market, in addition to several large-scale internal fundings. His current research interests are in 5G and 6G (beyond-5G) wireless system/network design and standards; application of machine learning and federated learning for wireless systems or digital signal processing; polarization diversity and multiplexing; body area network such as wearable computing and in-vivo communications; and wireless channel modeling.
In particular, he has a strong interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and federated learning (FL) for wireless communication systems, digital signal processing and other research fields.
Contact
e-mail: sean.kwon@csulb.edu; seok-chul.s.kwon@ieee.org
Research Interests
5G wireless communication system design, network standard architecture and protocols: massive MIMO, millimeter-wave communications, channel state information (CSI) feedback, reference signal (RS) design
6G (beyond-5G) wireless communication and networking: multi-polarization superposition beamforming (MPS-Beamforming), polarized MIMO (P-MIMO), polarization division multiple access (PDMA), orthogonal frequency-polarization division multiple access (OF-PDMA)
Mahine learning and Federated learning
Internet of things (IoT) for the health-care: in-vivo, ex-vivo body area network (BAN) IoT, channel modeling of the wireless BAN biomedical devices
Internet of things (IoT) for the intelligent transportation system (ITS) and wearable computing/driving: in-vehicle and inter-vehicle IoT network modeling, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) communications and network modeling
Channel characteristics and modeling of 5G/6G wireless communications: comprehensive multi-polarized multi-path fading channel modeling for a variety of wave-propagation scenarios including macro-cell downlink, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V), and body area network (BAN)
Mesh and ad-hoc network: novel scheme of network coding, channel assignment algorithm
Other issues in the broad area of wireless communications, networking and digital signal processing