News

2026

(10/2026) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE WCNC 2027
(10/2026) Accepted paper: "Qubit-centric transformer for surface code decoding," Physical Review A [link]
(09/2026) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Coding and Applications (FICA) 2027
(09/2026) CGF-Softmax has been implemented in HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source FHE compiler toolchain maintained by Google [link] [link]
(09/2026) Accepted paper: "Spectral-aligned pruning for universal error-correcting code transformers," NeurIPS 2026 [link]
(09/2026) I am organizing the Workshop on AI-Native Communications at POSTECH [link]
(08/2026) New manuscript: "Token-oriented semantic communication with pretrained vision transformers" [link]
(08/2026) New manuscript: "ImpactHO: Importance-aware KV cache transfer for multi-user edge LLM handover" [link]
(08/2026) Award: 학부 종합설계과제 최우수상 (박한준), "동형 암호 기반의 프라이버시보장 기계학습 기법 연구"
(08/2026) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE ICC 2027
(07/2026) Tutorial: "Universal Transformer Channel Decoders for 6G and AI-RAN," 한국통신학회 B5G/6G 핵심기술 단기강좌
(07/2026) New manuscript: "Degree-constrained interval optimization for minimax polynomial approximation in homomorphic encryption" [link]
(06/2026) Media: 'AI 병목' 돌파에 사활 건 韓 이공계대학 (EfficientMPT 연구 소개) [한국경제]
(06/2026) Accepted paper: "Optimized layerwise approximation for efficient private inference on fully homomorphic encryption," Neurocomputing [link]
(05/2026) Media: 포스텍, 기존 AI 기반 통신 복호기의 높은 연산량과 메모리 요구 한계 극복하는 기술 개발 [뉴스1] [전자신문] [동아사이언스] [베리타스알파] [경북매일신문] [전기신문]
(04/2026) Funding: AI-Native 응용서비스 지원 AI-Native 무선 인터페이스 기술 개발 (Development of AI-Native Wireless Interface Technology to Support AI-Native Application Services), 과학기술정보통신부 정보통신기획평가원 (IITP)
(04/2026) Tutorial: "Universal transformer channel decoders for AI-RAN," Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCI) [link]
(03/2026) Accepted paper: "Mutual information minimization for side-channel attack resistance via optimal noise injection," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2026
(03/2026) Accepted paper: "Design of root protograph LDPC codes simultaneously achieving full diversity and high coding gain," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2026
(02/2026) Code release: "Efficient message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 [code]
(01/2026) Accepted paper: "Efficient message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 [link]
(01/2026) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE Globecom 2026 (Machine Learning for Communications and Networking)

2025

(12/2025) New manuscript: "A survey on robust deep joint source-channel coding for semantic communications"
(12/2025) New manuscript: "Collaborative edge-to-server inference for vision-language models" [link]
(12/2025) Funding: 동형암호 기반 LLM 추론 정확도 향상을 위한 최적화 기법 (Optimization methods for improving the accuracy of homomorphically encrypted LLM inference), LG Electronics
(12/2025) Invited talk: "Universal transformer channel decoders for AI-RAN," AI-RAN Summit
(11/2025) Award: 한국통신학회 공로상
(11/2025) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE ICC 2026 (Cloud Computing and Networking)
(10/2025) Appointment: 한국연구재단 기초연구본부 전문위원 (통신 원천)
(10/2025) Award: 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 우수논문상 (송수창, 김용준), "시각-언어 모델을 이용한 엣지-서버 간 협력 추론"
(10/2025) New manuscript: "Hierarchical qubit-merging transformer for quantum error correction" [arXiv]
(10/2025) Funding: SSD Architecture/NAND 관리 알고리즘 (SSD architecture and NAND flash management algorithms), Samsung Electronics
(10/2025) Funding: 고신뢰성의 System을 위한 DRAM향 ECC 및 신뢰성 강화 연구 (DRAM ECC and reliability enhancement for high-reliability systems), Samsung Electronics
(10/2025) Invited talk: APWDSIT, Oct. 2025 [link]
(09/2025) I am organizing the Workshop on AI-Native Communications at POSTECH [link]
(07/2025) Media: AI 기반 오류정정부호 기술 개발…"6G 기술 선도" [link]
(07/2025) Accepted paper: "Regularized deep joint source-channel coding for robust task-oriented semantic communications," IEEE Globecom 2025 (Communication Theory)
(07/2025) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE WCNC 2026
(07/2025) Award: 학부 종합설계과제 우수상 (강근호, 김지훈), "압축 알고리즘을 이용한 최소 엔트로피 추정 기법 연구"
(06/2025) Award: 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회 학부논문경진대회 우수상 (강근호, 김지훈, 우지헌, 김용준), "LZ77 압축 알고리즘 기반 최소 엔트로피 추정 기법"
(06/2025) Accepted paper: "Vision transformer-based semantic communications with importance-aware quantization," IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
(05/2025) Invited talk: "Error correction code transformer: Universal transformer," 통신학회 미래통신기술 워크숍
(05/2025) Accepted paper: "Hybrid ordered statistics decoding of short-length BCH codes for URLLC systems: Theoretical analysis and decoder implementation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I)
(04/2025) Funding: 온디바이스용 플래시메모리 기반 인공지능반도체 프로세서 기술 개발 (Development of flash memory-based AI processing unit for on-device AI), 과학기술정보통신부 정보통신기획평가원 (IITP)
(04/2025) Invited talk: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," Nanyang Technological University (hosted by Prof. Jun Zhao) [link]
(04/2025) Invited talk: "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications," Samsung Research
(04/2025) Accepted paper: "Quantizing for noisy flash memory channels," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Jun. 2025.
(04/2025) Invited talk: "Transformer for communications: Semantic encoder and universal decoder," ICT Convergence Korea
(03/2025) New manuscript: "Robust deep joint source channel coding for task-oriented semantic communications" [arXiv]
(03/2025) Code release: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [code]
(03/2025) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for APWDSIT 2025
(02/2025) Funding: 과제 지향 시맨틱 통신 (Task-oriented semantic communications), Samsung Research
(02/2025) Code release: "Multiple-masks error correction code transformer for short block codes," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) [code]
(02/2025) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE VTC 2025 Spring
(02/2025) Invited talk: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop
(01/2025) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE Globecom 2025
(01/2025) Accepted paper: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Apr. 2025
(01/2025) Invited talk: "Transformer for communications: Semantic encoder and universal decoder," Workshop on Semantic Communication and AI-RAN for 6G (hosted by IEEE South Australia Section)
(01/2025) Accepted paper: "Multiple-masks error correction code transformer for short block codes," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) (Special Issue on Rethinking the Information Identification, Representation, and Transmission Pipeline: New Approaches to Data Compression and Communication)
(01/2025) Accepted paper: "Vision transformer-aided importance-aware quantization for digital semantic communications," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2025
(01/2025) Accepted posters: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes" and "Robust deep joint source channel coding," IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) [link]
(01/2025) I will serve as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (Area: Machine Learning and Communications) [link]

2024

(12/2024) Invited talk: "Transformer for communications: Semantic encoder and universal decoder," Coding and Information Theory Workshop, Hong Kong (hosted by IEEE Hong Kong Section Information Theory Chapter and City University of Hong Kong)
(11/2024) Tutorial: "Transformer for communications," KICS Fall Conference (한국통신학회 추계종합학술발표회)
(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]
(11/2024) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE ICC 2025
(10/2024) Code release: "Attention-Aware Semantic Communications for Collaborative Inference," IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) [link] [code]
(10/2024) Invited talk: "Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes," Huawei Theory Lab
(10/2024) Funding: 트랜스포머 모델의 동형 연산 최적화 기법 (Optimizing homomorphic computations for transformer models), LG Electronics
(09/2024) Invited talk: "Information theoretic limits on high-bandwidth interconnect," Samsung Global Technology Conference
(08/2023) Invited lecture: "Transformer for communications," 한국통신학회 정보 및 학습이론 단기강좌
(07/2024) Accepted paper: "Attention-aware semantic communications for collaborative inference," IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) [link]
(07/2024) Award: 학부 종합설계과제 최우수상 (김민우, 성현우, 허수범), "시맨틱 통신에서의 액티브 러닝을 활용한 통신 자원 최적화"
(07/2024) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE SECON 2024
(05/2024) Accepted paper: "New private information retrieval codes for imperfect privacy," ICT Express [link]
(05/2024) New manuscript: "CrossMPT: Cross-attention message-passing transformer for error correcting codes" [arXiv]
(04/2024) Award: Our JCCI paper received the best paper award [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)
(04/2024) Funding: 양자안전 보안인프라 전환 및 대양자 복합 안전성 검증기술 개발 (Development of quantum-safe infrastructure migration and quantum security verification technologies), 과학기술정보통신부 정보통신기획평가원 (IITP)
(04/2024) Funding: 네트워크 전문연구실 (NRC): 통신 세대 진화를 위한 채널 부호 부복호 및 채널 추정 기술 (Advanced channel coding and channel estimation technologies for wireless communication evolution), 과학기술정보통신부 정보통신기획평가원 (IITP)
(03/2024) Invited talk: "Transformers for communications," Motorola Mobility
(03/2024) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE Globecom 2024 (Machine Learning for Communications)
(02/2024) New manuscript: "Attention-aware semantic communications for collaborative inference" [arXiv] [TechRxiv]
(02/2024) Invited talk: "Semantic-aware and task-oriented communications for and by AI," 한국통신학회 생성형 AI 기반 차세대 통신 네트워크 설계 워크샵 [link]

2023

(10/2023) TPC: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) 2024 [link]
(10/2023) New manuscript: "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: Invited to serve as a TPC member 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) Media: 포스텍 김용준 교수팀 "불확실성을 측정하면 보안 수준이 보인다" 보안 시스템 평가 정확도 향상 [link]
(08/2023) New manuscript: "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: Invited to serve as a TPC member 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: Invited to serve as a TPC member 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: Invited to serve as a TPC member 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: Information Theory and Applications (ITA) 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) 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"

2022

(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: Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE VTC 2022-Fall (Intelligent and Semantic Communications)
(07/2022) Accepted paper: "Optimizing write fidelity of MRAMs by alternating water-filling algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
(05/2022) Accepted paper: "Low-complexity deep convolutional neural networks on fully homomorphic encryption using multiplexed parallel convolutions," 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) Accepted paper: Three papers were accepted to ISIT 2022
(02/2022) Accepted paper: "High-precision bootstrapping for approximate homomorphic encryption by error variance minimization," Eurocrypt 2022 [link]

2021

(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: Invited to serve as a TPC member 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) Accepted paper: "Boosting for straggling and flipping classifiers," IEEE ISIT 2021 [link]
(04/2021) Accepted paper: "On the efficient estimation of min-entropy," 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]

2020

(11/2020) Invited talk: KAIST EE colloquium "Energy-efficient machine learning via classical water-filling"
(09/2020) TPC: Serving as a Program Committee for AAAI Conference 2021
(08/2020) Accepted paper: "Compression by and for deep Boltzmann machines," IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) [link]
(08/2020) Serving as a session chair for Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
(08/2020) Accepted paper: "Distributed boosting classifiers over noisy channels," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers [arXiv]
(08/2020) Joined the Department of EECS at DGIST as an assistant professor
(04/2020) Accepted paper: "Optimizing the write fidelity of MRAMs," IEEE ISIT 2020 [link]

Before 2020

(12/2019) Accepted paper: "Deep in-memory architectures for machine learning-accuracy versus efficiency trade-offs," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I) [link]
(07/2019) Accepted paper: "On the optimal refresh power allocation for energy-efficient memories," IEEE Globecom 2019 [link]
(04/2019) Accepted paper: "Minimum precision requirements of general margin hyperplane classifiers," 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) Accepted paper: "Efficient local secret sharing for distributed blockchain systems," IEEE Communications Letters [link]
(09/2018) Accepted paper: "Shannon-inspired statistical computing for the nanoscale era," Proceedings of the IEEE (special issue on non-Silicon, non-von Neumann computing) [link]
(08/2018) Award: Our IEEE ISCAS paper received the Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) of Neural Systems and Applications [link]
(05/2017) Accepted paper: "Analytical guarantees on numerical precision of deep neural networks," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) [link]
(05/2016) Award: Received the best paper award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Selected Areas in Communications) [link] [link]

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