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Principal Investigator

Yongjune Kim (김용준)

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
MS, BS, Seoul National University
Email: yongjune@postech.ac.kr
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Yongjune Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and an Adjunct Professor at Yonsei University. His research interests include coding theory, communication theory, and machine learning.

Before joining POSTECH, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at DGIST and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he was mentored by Prof. Naresh R. Shanbhag and Prof. Lav R. Varshney. He also worked at Western Digital Research, Samsung Electronics, and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar (Vijayakumar Bhagavatula). He earned his BS and MS degrees in ECE from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea, advised by Prof. Jong-Seon No.

His work has been recognized with several awards, including the IEEE ComSoc Data Storage Technical Committee Best Student Paper Award, the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), the Best Paper Award (honorable mention) at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), and the Best Paper Award at the 31st Samsung Semiconductor Technology Symposium. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.