Dr. Faranak Solat

Ph.D. from Gachon University, Seongnam-si, Korea, Software Engineering, 2025

M.S. from Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, IT Engineering, 2019

B.S. from Alzahrta University, Tehran, Iran, Industrial Engineering, 2017

Gold Medal, Korea International Women's Invention Exposition (KIWIE 2026), Korea Women Inventors Association (KWIA), Seoul, South Korea (2026)

Grand Prize, Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF 2025), Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA), Seoul, South Korea, (2025)

Ranked First among about 15 participants in the MSc Entrance Exam, Iran, (2019)

Full tuition-waiving award for MSc program, IUST, Iran, (2017)

Ranked 2nd for paper presentation; In the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Accounting, Management and Economics, Iran, (2017)

Ranked First among about 25 participants in the BSc Entrance Exam, Iran, (2017)

Full tuition-waiving award for BSc program, Alzahra University, Iran, (2014)

Mar. 2026 ~ Present,  Assistant Professor, Department of AI & Data Science, Sejong University, Korea

Mar. 2025 ~ Feb. 2026,  Assistant Professor, Department of AI, Gachon University, Korea

Sep. 2022 ~ Feb. 2025,  Educational Assistant, Department of AI, Gachon University, Korea

Nov. 2019 ~ Aug. 2021,  Digital Marketing Specialist, Nilper Co., Iran

Sep. 2019 ~ Nov. 2019,  Web Designer, Department of Computer Eng., Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Mar. 2019 ~ Sep. 2019,  Gamification Researcher, SAPCO (Supplying Automotive Parts Company), Iran

Jan. 2015 ~ Jun. 2017,  CRM Specialist and Engineer, Emdad Khodro Iran, Iran

Guest Editor, Special Issue “Vehicular Networks: Theory, Methods and Applications,” Electronics, MDPI, 2026–Present 

Leader, Team 5, Global R&D Career Salon, Korea Institute of S&T Human Resource Development (KIRD), 2026 [Link]

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair, 2nd International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Society (ICA2S 2026) [Link]

Honorary Reporter, Korea.net, Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS), Republic of Korea, 2023 ~ Present [Link]

Reviewer, IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine

Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters

Reviewer, IEEE Access

Reviewer, Computers & Industrial Engineering

Reviewer, Scientific Reports

Reviewer, The Journal of Supercomputing

Reviewer, Cluster Computing

Reviewer, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Reviewer, Pattern Analysis and Applications

Reviewer, Wireless Personal Communications

Reviewer, Sensors

Reviewer, Electronics

Reviewer, Information

Keynote: Keynote address at ICAAIDT 2026 on Federated Learning and Large Language Models. [Link]

KIRD: Invited speaker at KIRD's Global R&D Career Salon on building a research career in Korea. [Link]

Korea.net: Featured in Korea.net's “Who Read Story” series discussing The Match. [Link]