Professor Yongjune Kim Appointed
As of August 24th 2020, Professor Yongjune Kim will join us in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at DGIST.
Professor Yongjune Kim received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2016. From 2007 to 2012, he was a researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Samsung Electronics. From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. From 2018 to 2020, he was a researcher at Western Digital Research, Milpitas, CA, USA.His research interests include machine learning, coding theory, and information theory. He is focusing on efficient and robust machine learning systems under resource constraints. He published 23 peer-reviewed papers in prominent journals and conferences including Proceedings of the IEEE, ICML, JSAC, TCOM, TCAS-I, and ICC. He is a recipient of the IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award, the Best Paper Award of ICC, and the Best Paper Award (honorable mention) of ISCAS, and the Best Paper Award of Samsung Semiconductor Technology Symposium. He has served as a TPC member of ICC and Globecom and will serve as a Lead Co-Chair of the 2021 Globecom.
