June 2025: Students Y. Kim and D. Jun won 1st and 2nd Prizes at IEEE ComSoc 4M Thesis Competition
Dec. 2024: Received Ministry of Science and ICT Award for 6G research contributions
Dec. 2024: Recognized among Korea’s Top 100 Excellent National R&D Outcomes for 6G technology development and demonstration
Nov. 2024: Named Scilit's Top Cited Researcher 2024 (ranked 5,377 out of 77 million researchers globally)
July 2024: Appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (VTS)
May 2024: Awarded Ministry of Education Award for academic advancement
Dec. 2023: Received KICS Haedong Scholar Grand Award
Jan. 2023: Won CES Innovation Award (Las Vegas, US)
May 2022: Magnetic MIMO for Alzheimer's Treatment won IEEE ICC Best Demo Award
May 2021: Received Yonsei Best Educator Award and Outstanding Achievement Award in Education (top 0.5% faculty)
March 2021: Won IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award
Nov. 2020: Elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to MIMO design and prototype for emerging communication systems
March 2020: Received Yonsei University’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Research (Hi-Ci, Highly Cited Researcher)
Received Outstanding Teaching Award from Yonsei University in April 2020 and April 2023
Students received multiple Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes in Humantech Paper Contests (2021, 2023)
May 2020: In-Vessel Molecular MIMO Communications Demo won IEEE WCNC Best Demo Award
Background
Underwood Distinguished Professor and Yonsei Lee Youn Jae Fellow (Endowed Chair Professor) at Yonsei University, Korea
Director of the Intelligence Networking Lab
Research interests: next-generation (6G/B6G) communication networks, molecular communication networks, applied machine learning, and applied mathematics
IEEE Fellow and Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK)
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for both Communications Society (ComSoc) and Vehicular Technology Society (VTSoc)
Past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Broadband and Multimedia Communications (IEEE Trans. MBMC)