AIoT Lab. @ HKNU

Mar. 1997 - Feb. 2001: B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KAIST
Mar. 2001 - Feb. 2003: M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KAIST
Mar. 2003 - Feb. 2007: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KAIST
Jan. 2006 - Feb. 2006: Visiting researcher in TeleCIS Wireless Inc., CA, USA
Feb. 2007 - Feb. 2011: Senior research engineer in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Aug. 2008 - Nov. 2008: Visiting Scholar in Stanford University, CA, USA
Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2018: Visiting Scholar in University of California, Irvine, USA
Mar. 2024 - Feb. 2025: Visiting Scholar in University of Calgary, Canada
Mar. 2011 - Mar. 2020: Assistant and Associate Professor in Department of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Hankyong National University
Apr. 2020 - Present: Professor in School of ICT, Robotics & Mechanical Engineering, Hankyong National University

Graduated with honors from KAIST (cum laude)
Patent award (Bronze) at project team in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Jan. 2010)
Paper award (Gold) as a co-author at Samsung conference 2010 (Nov. 2010)
Excellent Paper Award in International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN) 2012
Best Paper Award in IARIA International Conference on Networks (ICN) 2014
Best Paper Award in 12th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine) 2016
Hankyong Academic Award 2014
Hankyong Academic Award 2016
Hankyong Academic Award 2017
Excellent Paper Award in J. KICS 2018
Excellent Paper Award in KICS Conference Autumn 2019
Excellent Paper Award in KIICE Conference Spring 2020
Excellent Paper Award in KICS Conference Summer 2020
Hankyong Academic Award 2021
Hankyong Academic Award 2022
Best Paper Award in the 4th Korea Artificial Intelligence Conference 2023
Excellent Paper Awards in KIICE Conference Autumn 2023
Hankyong Academic Award 2024

Communication-Computing Co-Design and Optimizations
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Semantic Communications
Bio-Inspired Algorithms, In-Network Computations
Optimization Theory, Game Theory, Graph Theory
Big Data Analysis and Modelling
Next-Generation Wireless Communication and Networks, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks
System Level Simulation in Large-Scale Networks
Web Framework (.NET, Node.js, JSP), Database (SQL), IoT Platform (Arduino, Rasberry Pi)
Development of Android Applications (https://aiot.hknu.ac.kr/development)

Editorial Board of the MDPI IoT Journal
Editorial Board of the KIICE Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering
Associate Editors of the Springer Wireless Personal Communications
Associate Editors of the KIISE Journal of Computing Science and Engineering