News
(11/2024) Accepted paper: "Boosted neural decoders: Achieving extreme reliability of LDPC codes for 6G networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Special Issue on Next Generation Advanced Transceiver Technologies) [link]
(10/2024) Code release: "Attention-Aware Semantic Communications for Collaborative Inference," IEEE Internet of Things Journal [link] [code]
(10/2024) Invited talk: Huawei Theory Lab "Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes"
(10/2024) Funding: LG Electronics, Optimizing homomorphic computations for transformer models (트랜스포머 모델의 동형 연산 최적화 기법)
(09/2024) Invited talk: "Information theoretic limits on high-bandwidth interconnect," Samsung Global Technology Conference
(07/2024) Accepted paper: "Attention-aware semantic communications for collaborative inference," IEEE Internet of Things Journal [link]
(07/2024) 학부 종합설계과제 최우수팀 선정 (김민우, 성현우, 허수범): "시맨틱 통신에서의 액티브 러닝을 활용한 통신 자원 최적화"
(07/2024) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE SECON 2024
(05/2024) Accepted paper: "New private information retrieval codes for imperfect privacy," ICT Express [link]
(05/2024) Preprint: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes" [arXiv]
(04/2024) Best Paper Award: 이중 마스크 오류정정부호 트랜스포머, 제 34회 통신정보 합동학술대회 (Joint Conference on Communications and Information) [link]
(04/2024) Invited talk: "Breaking the communication bottleneck by integrating communications and computations," Samsung Global Technology Conference
(04/2024) Accepted poster: "Attention-aware semantic communications for collaborative inference," IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW)
(03/2024) Invited talk: Motorola Mobility, "Transformers for communications"
(03/2024) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE Globecom 2024 (Machine Learning for Communications)
(02/2024) Preprint: "Attention-aware semantic communications for collaborative inference" [arXiv] [TechRxiv]
(02/2024) Invited talk: 한국통신학회 생성형 AI 기반 차세대 통신 네트워크 설계 워크샵, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for and by AI" [link]
(10/2023) TPC: Serving as a PC for IEEE Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) 2024 [link]
(10/2023) Preprint: "Optimizing layerwise polynomial approximation for efficient private inference on fully homomorphic encryption: A dynamic programming approach," arXiv [link]
(09/2023) Accepted paper: "Boosting learning for LDPC codes to improve the error-floor performance," NeurIPS [link]
(09/2023) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE ICC 2024 (Cloud Computing, Networking and Storage)
(09/2023) Accepted paper: "A context-aware CEO problem," IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) [link]
(08/2023) Preprint: "How to mask in error correction code transformer: Systematic and double masking" [link]
(08/2023) Invited talk: 초공간 과업지향통신 ITRC 연구 센터 개소식, "Semantic communications: Research trends and challenges"
(08/2023) Invited talk: 부호 및 정보이론 연구회, "Efficient and accurate estimation of min-entropy"
(08/2023) Invited lecture: 한국통신학회 정보 및 학습이론 단기강좌, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications"
(08/2023) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE Globecom 2023 Workshop (Semantic Communications for 6G)
(07/2023) Funding: POSCO Holdings (포스코 홀딩스 창의아이디어과제), Next-generation Communication Technologies for Internet-of-Things (사물 인터넷 환경에 최적화된 차세대 통신 기법 연구)
(07/2023) Funding: National Research Foundation (한국연구재단 우수연구-최초혁신실험실), Semantic-aware and Task-oriented Communications for Extremely Efficient Low-latency 6G (고효율 및 저지연 6G를 위한 시맨틱 및 과제 지향 통신 기법 연구)
(06/2023) 포항공대 신문 기고글: "시맨틱 통신, 정보 전송을 넘어서" [link]
(06/2023) Accepted paper: "Precise approximation of convolutional neural networks for homomorphically encrypted data," IEEE Access [link]
(06/2023) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE Globecom 2023 (Machine Learning for Communications)
(06/2023) Invited talk: 대한전자공학회 6G 통신기술 및 기계학습 워크숍, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference" [link]
(05/2023) Accepted paper: "Generalized LRS estimator for min-entropy estimation," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [link]
✷ Media [동아사이언스] [POSTECH](05/2023) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE SECON (Workshop on Semantic Communication for 6G) [link]
(04/2023) Funding: IITP (과학기술정보통신부), MPU/Connectivity/TinyML SoC Solution for IoT Intelligence with Foundry-based eFLASH (IoT Intelligence용 eFLASH 파운드리 공정 기반 MPU/Connectivity/경량 신경망 통합 반도체 개발)
(04/2023) Accepted paper: "Information and energy transmission with wavelet-reconstructed harvesting functions," IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) [link]
(04/2023) Special panel: Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI), "Semantic communications: Views & use cases" [link]
(04/2023) Invited talk: Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI), "Efficient and accurate estimation of min-entropy" [link]
(03/2023) Invited talk: 통신신호연구회 워크숍, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference" [link]
(03/2023) Funding: National Research Foundation (한국연구재단 우수신진연구), Semantic-aware and Task-oriented Communications for Extremely Efficient Low-latency 6G (고효율 및 저지연 6G를 위한 시맨틱 및 과제 지향 통신 기법 연구)
(03/2023) Funding: Samsung Electronics (삼성전자 DS 산학과제), Channel Coding and Learning-based Resource Optimization for High-density and High-performance SSD (고용량 및 고성능 SSD를 위한 부호화 기법 및 기계 학습 기반 자원 최적화 연구)
(02/2023) Session organization (ITA 2023): Prof. Yuval Cassuto at Technion and I are organizing an ITA session on Distributed Inference and Task-oriented Communications
(02/2023) Invited talk: ITA (Information Theory and Applications) Workshop, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(02/2023) Invited talk: 한국통신학회 미주지부 워크숍, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(02/2023) Invited tutorial: KICS Winter Conference (한국통신학회 동계종합학술발표회) "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference" [link]
(01/2023) Invited talk: University of Ulsan, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(12/2022) Funding: Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (삼성종합기술원), Optimization Techniques for Inference and Training of Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (동형암호 기반 인공지능 시스템의 추론 및 학습 최적화 기법 연구
(12/2022) Accepted poster: "Rate-distortion via energy-based models," Data Compression Conference (DCC)
(12/2022) Accepted paper: "Ensemble classification with noisy real-valued base-functions," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Special Issue: Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning over Networks)
(12/2022) Invited talk: Seoul National University, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(11/2022) Invited talk: Korea University, "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(11/2022) Invited talk: 부호 및 정보이론 연구회, "Semantic and task-oriented communications for distributed inference"
(11/2022) Affiliated with POSTECH Graduate School of AI (포스텍 인공지능대학원 겸임교수)
(10/2022) Invited talk: GIST EECS's colloquium "Efficient estimation of min-entropy"
(10/2022) Accepted paper: "Distributed boosting classification over noisy communication channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Special Issue: Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics and Task-Oriented Communications)
(10/2022) Accepted paper: "Writing on dirty flash memory: Combating inter-cell interference via coding with side information," Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN)
(10/2022) New manuscript: "Communication-efficient and drift-robust federated learning via elastic net," submitted. [link]
(09/2022) Invited talk: Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop (STW) "Energy-efficient machine learning via Shannon's water-filling"
(09/2022) Accepted paper: "Neural min-sum decoding for generalized LDPC codes," IEEE Communications Letters [link]
(09/2022) Joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at POSTECH
(07/2022) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE VTC 2022-Fall (Intelligent and Semantic Communications)
(07/2022) "Optimizing write fidelity of MRAMs by alternating water-filling algorithm" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
(05/2022) Our paper on privacy-preserving machine learning was accepted to ICML 2022 [link]
(04/2022) Funding: [Samsung Electronics (삼성전자 DS)] Channel Coding for High-density SSD (고용량 SSD를 위한 고신뢰성 오류정정기술) for 3 years
(04/2022) Three papers were accepted to ISIT 2022
(02/2022) "High-precision bootstrapping for approximate homomorphic encryption by error variance minimization" was accepted to Eurocrypt 2022 [link]
(10/2021) Funding: [SAIT (삼성종합기술원)] Optimization Techniques for Inference and Training of Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (동형암호 기반 인공지능 시스템의 추론 및 학습 최적화 기법 연구), 11/01/2022 - 10/31/2023 (PI)
(10/2021) TPC: Serving as a TPC for IEEE ICC 2022
(09/2021) Invited talk: GIST EECS colloquium "Energy-efficient machine learning via classical water-filling"
(08/2021) Invited Talk: e-TEC Talks @ Seoul National University [link]
(05/2021) "Boosting for straggling and flipping classifiers" was accepted to IEEE ISIT 2021 [link]
(04/2021) "On the efficient estimation of min-entropy" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Security (TIFS) [link]
✷ We proposed extremely efficient min-entropy estimators for non-iid sources [Maeil Business News (매일경제)] [ET News (전자신문)] [Newsis (뉴시스)] [EurekAlert](04/2021) Funding: IITP (과학기술정보통신부), Development of Highly Efficient PQC Security and Performance Verification for Constrained Devices (저사양 디바이스 대상 고효율 PQC 안전성 및 성능 검증 기술 개발), 04/01/2021 - 12/31/2024 (Co-PI)
(02/2021) Serving as a Symposium Chair for IEEE Globecom 2021 (Track: Cloud computing, Networking, and Storage) [CFP]
(11/2020) Invited talk: KAIST EE colloquium "Energy-efficient machine learning via classical water-filling"
(09/2020) Serving as a Program Committee for AAAI Conference 2021
(08/2020) "Compression by and for deep Boltzmann machines" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) [link]
(08/2020) Serving as a session chair for Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
(08/2020) "Distributed boosting classifiers over noisy channels" was accepted to Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers [arXiv]
(08/2020) Joined the Department of EECS at DGIST as an assistant professor
CMU/UIUC
(04/2020) "Optimizing the write fidelity of MRAMs" was accepted to IEEE ISIT 2020 [link]
(12/2019) "Deep in-memory architectures for machine learning-accuracy versus efficiency trade-offs" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I) [link]
(07/2019) "On the optimal refresh power allocation for energy-efficient memories" was accepted to IEEE Globecom 2019 [link]
(04/2019) "Minimum precision requirements of general margin hyperplane classifiers" was accepted to IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) [link]
(03/2019) Received the IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award [link]
(02/2019) Our paper on local secret sharing was the 7th most popular article of IEEE Communications Letters [link]
(11/2018) "Efficient local secret sharing for distributed blockchain systems" was accepted to IEEE Communications Letters [link]
(09/2018) Our manuscript on Shannon-inspired statistical computing was accepted by Proceedings of the IEEE (special issue on non-Silicon, non-von Neumann computing) [link]
(08/2018) Our IEEE ISCAS paper received the Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) of Neural Systems and Applications [link]
(05/2017) "Analytical guarantees on numerical precision of deep neural networks" was accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [link]
(05/2016) Received the best paper award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Selected Areas in Communications) [link] [link]