Mar. 2025 - present, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2025, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Feb. 2024 - Feb. 2025, Visiting Scholar, Qualcomm Institute (Prof. Ramesh R. Rao), University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, California, United States.
Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2024, Dean, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024, Associate Dean, Startup Support Foundation of Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024, Director, Startup Support Foundation of Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Jul. 2022 - Feb. 2023, Director, SW Major Education Center of Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Mar. 2022 - Jan. 2023, Director, Placement Support Center of Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2022, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Jun. 2020 - May 2022, Assistant Administrator, IT Research Institute of Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Jan. 2017 - Feb. 2018, Senior Researcher, KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Sep. 2015 - Jan. 2017, Senior Research Scientist, KIOST (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology), Ansan, Republic of Korea.
Mar. 2008 - Aug. 2015, Research Assistant, GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Dec. 2013 - Jul. 2014, Visiting Scholar, Center for Multimedia Communications Lab. (Prof. Ashutosh Sabharwal), Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States.
Feb. 2012 - Mar. 2012, Visiting Student, Wireless Networking, Signal Processing and Security Lab. (Prof. Zhu Han), University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States.
Ph.D. in Information and Communications, GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), August 2015.
M.S. in Information and Communications, GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), February 2010.
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, PNU (Pusan National University), February 2008. (summa cum laude)
Sep. 2024, Baekak academic award (Best research achievement for last 3 years), Chosun University.
Aug. 2023, Outstanding paper award, International Conference on Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC).
Apr. 2023, Best paper award, Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI).
Feb. 2021, Best paper award, Winter Conference of Korea Information and Communications Society (KICS).
Feb. 2021, Award for the best teacher, Chosun University.
Nov. 2020, Award for the best teacher, Chosun University.
Aug. 2020, Best paper award, KIISE Summer Workshop on Computer Communications (SWCC).
May. 2020, Best paper award, Spring Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM).
May. 2020, Best presentation award, Spring Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media (KISM).
Feb. 2017, Best paper award, Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KSC).
Feb. 2015, Bronze prize (3rd place in communication & networks area), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Award.
Nov. 2013, Global University Project (GUP) scholarship, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST).
Mar. 2008, National scholarship for graduate school of sciences and engineering, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
Mar. 2004 – Feb. 2008, Full national scholarship for undergraduate school of sciences and engineering, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF).
Member, IEEE, IEEE Young Professionals, (2015 - present).
Member, ACM Professional, (2018 - present).
Member, KICS (The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences), (2015 - present).
Member, IEIE (The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers), (2018 - present).
Member, KIISE (The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers), (2020 - present).
Member, KISM (The Korean Institute of Smart Media), (2020 - present).
Member, KIIS (The Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems), 2023.
Member, KIEES (The Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science), 2021.
Director, KISM (The Korean Institute of Smart Media), (2024-2025).
Director, KINGPC (Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing), (2023 - 2025).
Director, KIIS (Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems), (2023 - 2024).
Director, KICS (The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences), (2019 - 2023).
Executive Editor, KICS Global Newsletter & KICS Webzine, (2019 - 2025).
Guest Editor, Sensors, special issue on "Wireless Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks for Engineering Applications", (2022-2024).
Guest Editor, Electronics, special issue on "Selected Papers from 2nd International Conference on Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC)", 2023.
Guest Editor, Electronics, special issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems", 2021.
TPC Vice Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC), (2020 - 2025).
TPC Vice Chair, Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI), (2023-2024).
Publication Chair, International Conference on Next Generation Computing (ICNGC), 2025.
Publicity Chair, International Conference on Maritime IT Convergence (ICMIC), 2023.
Local Arrangement Chair, International Conference on Smart Media and Applications (SMA), 2020.
Registration Chair, Summer Workshop on Computer Communications (SWCC), (2021-2022).
Session Chair: Spring Conference of KISM 2020, SMA 2020, ICAIIC (2020-2022), ICMIC 2022, Spring Conference of KINGC 2025.
TPC Member: IEEE PIMRC 2012, ICAIIC (2020-2025), KIISE SWCC (2020-2022), KICS Korea AI Conference (2021-2025), ICMIC (2022-2024), ICUFN (2023-2025), ICOIN (2023-2025), ICNGC 2023, JCCI (2023-2026), KINGC 2025, IEEE ICCE 2026.
"Resource allocation and navigation for heterogeneous 5G system", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), March 2022.
"Recent studies on wireless communications", Spring Conference of Korea Institute of Smart Media, May 2020.
"Next-generation 5G technologies", Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), December 2018.
"Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology and applications", Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), August 2018.