 Yanghee Choi |
Yanghee Choi received B.S. in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, M.S. in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science, and Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) in Paris, in 1975, 1977 and 1984 respectively. Before joining the School of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University in 1991, he has been with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) during 1977-1991, where he served as director of Data Communication Section, and Protocol Engineering Center. He was research student at Centre National d'Etude des Telecommunications (CNET) , Issy-les-Moulineaux, during 1981-1984. He was also Visiting Scientist to IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for the year 1988-1989. He is now leading the Multimedia and Mobile Communications Laboratory in Seoul National University. He is also director of Computer Network Research Center in Institute of Computer Technology (ICT). He is vice-president of Korea Information Science Society. He was editor-in-chief of KISS journals and also chairman of the Special Interest Group on Information Networking. He has been associate dean of research affairs at Seoul National University. He was president of Open Systems and Internet Association of Korea. His research interest lies in the field of multimedia systems and high-speed networking.
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 Hee Min Kwon |
Dr. H. M. Kwon heads both the Samsung Electronics Digital Solution Center which integrates multimedia technologies with the wider R&D and business objectives of Samsung Electronics. He was appointed to the Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Solution Center in 2005.
Dr. Kwon began his professional career as a researcher in various prestigious technical institutes from 1978 to 1996 (including the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research). He joined Samsung Electronics in 1996 as a Managing Director of the Corporate Multimedia Planning & Multimedia Lab.
He was promoted to Senior Vice President & General Manager of the company's Information Media Lab in 1999 and attained his current position in 2004. His team sought to articulate new business platforms and markets for Home, Personal and Mobile Multimedia applications. The team took advantage of the full range of company resources to develop innovative multimedia products with strong market potential that can extend Samsung's business into new media arenas.
Dr. Kwon graduated with a B.A. in Physics from Seoul National University in 1974, and received his Ph. D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1981.
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 Ioannis Stavrakakis |
Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, (Greece), 1983; Ph.D. in EE, University of Virginia (USA), 1988; assistant professor in CSEE, University of Vermont (USA), 1988-1994; associate professor of ECE, Northeastern University, Boston (USA), 1994-1999; associate professor of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (Greece), 1999-2002 and professor since 2002. Teaching and research interests are focused on resource allocation protocols and traffic management for communication networks, with recent emphasis on continuous media applications and ad hoc networking. His past research has been published in over 100 scientific journals and conference proceedings and was funded by NSF, DARPA, GTE, BBN and Motorola (USA) as well as Greek and European Union (IST) Funding agencies. He has served repeatedly in NSF and IST research proposal review panels and involved in the organization of numerous conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM, ITC and IFIP societies. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of (and has served as an elected officer for) the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) and the chairman of IFIP WG6.3. He has served as a co-organizer of the 1996 International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Mini-Seminar, the organizer of the 1999 IFIP WG6.3 workshop, a technical program co-chair for the IFIP Networking'2000 conference, the Vice-General Chair for Networking?2002 conference and the organizer of the COST-IST(EU)/NSF(USA)-sponsored NeXtworking?03. He is an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking, the ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal and the Computer Networks Journal
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 Sakae OKUBO |
He received the B.E and D.E degrees at Hiroshima University (1964) and Waseda University (1996), respectively. He has been engaged in research, development and international standardization of video coding and audiovisual communication systems at NTT, ASCII Corp., TAO and Waseda University where he is currently visiting professor of Global Information and Telecommunication Institute. In CCITT/ITU-T and MPEG, he led experts groups for H.261 and H.262|ISO/IEC 13818-2 video coding during 1984-1995. He has also been responsible for H.320, H.323 and other audiovisual communication system standards and is now acting as Co-Chair of Woking Party 2 in ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia terminals, systems and applications).
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Dae Young KIM |
1975 Seoul National University, Dept. Electronics Engineering, B. S.
1977 KAIST, Dept. Electronics Engineering, M. S.
1983 KAIST, Dept. Electronics Engineering, Ph. D.
1983~ Chungnam National University, Professor
2002~ Advanced Network Forum, Chief Executive Director
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 Daehyoung Hong |
Daehyoung Hong is a Professor at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1977, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1982 and 1986, respectively.
He joined Motorola Communication Systems Research Lab., Schaumburg, IL, USA, in 1986 where he was a senior staff research engineer and participated in the research and development of digital trunked radio systems (TRS) as well as CDMA digital cellular systems. He joined the faculty member of the Electronic Engineering Department of Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1992, where he is currently a Professor.
His research interests include design, performance analysis, control algorithms, and operations of wireless access network and communication systems. He has published numerous technical papers and holds several patents in the areas of wireless communication systems. He has been a consultant for a number of industrial firms.
He has been active in a number of professional societies. His service includes: Chairman of Seoul Council and Vice Director of the Asia/Pacific Board, IEEE Communications Society; Chairman, Mobile Communications Technical Activity Group, KICS; Chairman, Communications Society, IEEK; and Chairs and Members of Technical Program Committee for several major conferences including ICC2005. He served as Division Editor, Editor, and Guest Editor for many journals including the Journal of Communications and Networks. He now serves as Director of the Asia/Pacific Board, IEEE Communications Society, and as chair of 2.3GHz Portable Internet (WiBro) Project Group (PG302), Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), Korea.
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 Injong Rhee |
Injong Rhee received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. In year 2000, he founded Togabi Technologies, INC, a company that develops and markets mobile wireless multimedia applications for next generation wireless networks and he was CTO and CEO of the company until year 2002. His research interests are computer networks, congestion control, wireless networks, multimedia networking, distributed systems, and operation systems. He is an inventor of several congestion control protocols including TEAR, BIC-TCP and CUBIC. In particular, BIC-TCP has received a lot of media attention throughout the world and is adopted as the default TCP algorithm for Linux 2.6 and up. BIC-TCP is currently being used by millions of Linux users everyday. He received NSF Early Faculty Career Development Award in 1999 and New Inventor's award in 2002 from NCSU.
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 Sang Hyuk Son |
Sang Hyuk Son is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of
University of Virginia. He received the B.S. degree in electronics
engineering from Seoul National University, M.S. degree from KAIST, and
the Ph.D. in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park
in 1986.
He has been a Visiting Professor at KAIST, City University of Hong Kong,
Ecole Centrale de Lille in France, and Linkoping University and
University of Skovde in Sweden.
His current research interests include real-time computing, data services,
QoS management, wireless sensor networks, and information security.
He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel
and Distributed Systems, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for
Real-Time Systems Journal and Journal of Business Performance Management.
He has been on the executive board of the IEEE TC on Real-Time Systems,
and served as the Program Chair or General Chair of several real-time
and database conferences, including IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium and
IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce. He received the Outstanding
Contribution Award at the IEEE Conference on Embedded and Real-Time
Computing Systems and Applications in 2004.
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 Heejo Lee |
Heejo Lee received his BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea in 1993, 1995 and 2000, respectively.
Since 2004, he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. From 2001 to 2003, he was at Ahnlab, Inc. as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of Technology Planning Department. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the Network Systems Lab of the Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, and at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University.
Aside from security researches, Dr. Lee supports security communities and related events. Dr.Lee took the charge of the conductor of 2005 SCIENCEWAR (The annual POSTECH-KAIST hacking competition, http://sciencewar.korea.ac.kr). Dr. Lee is the founding member of PLUS(Postech Laboratory for Unix Security, http://www.plus.or.kr) KUICS(Korea University Institute Computer Security, http://kuics.korea.ac.kr).
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 Jeonghoon Mo |
Jeonghoon Mo got his Ph.D. degree at University of California at Berkeley,
spring 1999 under the supervision of Jean Walrand and J. G. Shanthikumar.
His thesis was on Fair Congestion Control for the Internet.
After the graduation, he joined the AT&T Labs in Middletown, NJ, where he worked on VoIP services and OSPF routing protocols.
He also worked for a Network Processor startup, Clearwater Networks and a Switch Fabric startup, TeraBlaze Inc. (now Agere).
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 Dongman Lee |
Dongman Lee received the BS degree in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in 1982, and the MS degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from KAIST, Korea in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as Technical Contributor at Hewlett-Packard. From 1998 to Nov 2003, he was Associate Professor in School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (ICU), Daejon, Korea. From Dec 2003, he is Professor at ICU. He has been actively participating in Korean and international Internet number and name committees since 1998. He received a Prime Minister Award as the recognition on the advancement of the Korean Internet in 2000. His laboratory, Collaborative Distributed Systems and Networks Lab (http://cds.icu.ac.kr), was appointed as National Research Laboratory in 2001. He has served as a member of the program committee of numerous international conferences including IEEE Multimedia, COMPSAC, PDCS, PRDC, VSMM, ICAT, etc. He is Editor of JCN. His research interests include distributed systems, computer networks, mobile computing and pervasive computing. Dr. Lee is a member of KISS, IEEE and ACM.
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 Roland Bless |
Roland Bless is a senior researcher at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Telematics. He studied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe and got his Ph.D. degree Dr.-Ing. in February 2002. His research interests are Quality-of-Service, QoS management, Differentiated Services, Multicast, Mobility and QoS Signaling. He is actively participating in IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Working Groups and brought parts of his work into the IETF standardization process. Dr. Bless is also member of IEEE and the German GI.
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 Seung-Jae Han |
* Employment
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea,
Associate Professor September, 2005 ~ present
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, Member of Technical Staff October, 1999 ~ September, 2005
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Post-doctoral Research Scientist September, 1998 ~ July, 1999
* Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering August, 1998
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea M.S., Computer Engineering Febrary 1991
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea B.S., Computer Engineering Febrary 1989
* Honor and Awards
Central Bell Laboratories Teamwork Award (2005)
Central Bell Laboratories Teamwork Award (2003)
Bell Laboratories President's Silver Award (2002)
Samsung Human-Tech Thesis Bronze Prize (1998)
Korean Government Overseas Scholarship (1992 ~ 1995)
Dongwon Acadimic Excellence Scholarship (1986~1988)
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 Myung-Ki Shin |
Myung-Ki Shin is a senior researcher at Protocol Engineering Center in ETRI (www.etri.re.kr). He has been working on IPv6 protocols since 1998. He was also a guest researcher at NIST (www.nist.gov). He is actively involved in IETF IPv6 related WGs. He is a co-author of several IETF RFCs (RFC 3338, RFC 4038, RFC 4489, etc.). He is active in deploying IPv6 and IP mobility technology. He is a technical leader of the 6TALK (www.6talk.net) project. He is also a co-chair of DSTM WG and a member of CTO Executive Committee of IPv6 Forum (www.ipv6forum.com). He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering by research on IPv6 multicast and mobility.
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 Song Chong |
Prof. Chong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995.
In March 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Taejon, Korea. He is currently an Associate Professor, leading the Network Systems Laboratory. Prior to joining KAIST, he was with the Performance Analysis Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, as a Member of Technical Staff.
His research interests include high-speed networks, multimedia networking and performance evaluation. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences and holds three U.S. patents with several others pending in these areas.
Prof. Chong is currently an Editor and an Associate Publication Editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member of IEEE INFOCOM `97, `99, `03, an Organizing Committee member of PV `01, a Program Committee member of PV `02, `03, `04 and a Technical Program Co-chair of ICBN `04.
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Seung Wha Yoo |
He received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1972, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from University of Kansas in 1980 and 1983 respectively. He is a member of the IEEE, KISS, KIPS, KICS of Korea. He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1983 to 1988. He had been involved in R&D at Samsung Electronics Co., Seoul, Korea, where he was a Senior Vice President from 1989 to 1999. He is currently a Professor in the Graduate School of Information and Communication at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. Also, he served as Chairman of Strategic Research and Planning Committee for Korea USN standardization Forum. His areas of interest are computer network, Internet Protocol, Wireless Internet, Ubiquitous computing, Wireless sensor network, .
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 Sae Woong Bahk |
Received the B.S.and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1984 and 1986 respectively, and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.
From 1991 through 1994 he was with the Department of Network Operations Systems at AT&T Bell Laboratories as an MTS where he worked for AT&T network management.
In 1994, he joined the school of electrical engineering at Seoul National University and currently serves as a professor.
His areas of interests include performance analysis of communication networks, and resource allocation at wired/wireless networks and network security.
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 Taekyoung Kwon |
* Education
Aug. 2000: Ph.D., School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Feb. 1995: M.S., Dept. of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
Feb. 1993: B.S., Dept. of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
* Career
Feb. 2004 - Present: Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Mar. 2003 - Jan. 2004: Post-doctoral researcher, City University New York
Sept. 2002 - Mar. 2003: Principal Engineer, IST international Inc.
Dec. 2000 - Aug. 2002: Post-doctoral Researcher, UCLA
Sept. 2000 - Nov. 2000: Post-doctoral Researcher, Soongsil University
Mar. 2000 - Aug. 2000: Part-time lecturer, Hanyang University
* Research Area
Wireless Networks: ad hoc network, sensor network, multimedia streaming
Wireless technologies convergence
mobile networks: mobility management, peer-to-peer mobility
ubiquitous/mobile computing
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 Byoung-Joon(BJ) Lee |
Dr. Byoung-Joon (BJ) Lee is currently leading the forward-looking network technology developments including next-generation network architecture, mobile IPv6, QoS, and network security at Networking Technology Lab of SAIT. In the past 3+ years with SAIT, he initiated and led R&D projects on network architecture evolution, IP mobility, QoS, mobile ad-hoc, and mesh networking areas.
He is a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his past employment in the last 10+ years also include Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems and Tropic Networks, where his R&D work ranged from ATM, IP routing and QoS, metro Ethernet, and optical network protocols.
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 JongWon Kim |
Dr. JongWon Kim received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1987, 1989 and 1994, respectively, all in control and instrumentation engineering. After working at KongJu National University, Kongju, Korea, (94~99) and Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA (97~01), he has joined as an Associate Prof. at Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea. Under the slogan of "Reliable and flexible delivery system for integrated multimedia over wired/wireless IP networks", he is focusing on networked media systems and protocols. He has co-authored around 200 technical publications in international/domestic journals and conferences. Dr. Kim is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, SPIE, KICS, IEEK, and KISS.
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 Chan-Hyun Youn |
Chan-Hyun Youn received BS and MS degrees in Electronics Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He also received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Communications Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1994.
He served at Korean Army as a communications officer, First Lieutenant, from 1981 to 1983. Before joining the University, from 1986 to 1997, he was the leader of high-speed networking team at Korea Telecom (KT) Telecommunications Network Research Laboratories. Where he had been involved in the research and developments of Centralized Switching Maintenance System (CSMS), Maintenance and Operation system for Various ESS¡¯s (MOVE) system, high-speed networking, and HAN/B-ISDN network testbed. Especially, he was a principal investigator of high-speed networking projects including ATM technical trial between KT and KDD, Japan, Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure (APII) testbed, Korea Research and Education Network (KOREN) and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), respectively. Currently, he is developing the Policy Quorum-based Grid middleware for QoS-constrained applications and Physio-Ubiquitous Grid system applicable for e-Health.
Since 1997, he has been an associate professor at Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea. He was a visiting professor at MIT in 2003 and is conducting the development of PhysioGrid infrastructure with Prof. R.G. Mark's group in a laboratory for computational physiology in 2002. He is a vice president of Grid Forum Korea and is serving for the technical program committee in many international conferences. Currently, he is interested in the Grid architecture, Middleware services, resource management, high performance routing, multicasting, network performance measurement, and optical Internet. He was a recipient of IEICE PAACS friendship prize, Japan, in 1994. Now, he is a member of IEEE, KICS and IEICE, respectively
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 Hwangjun Song |
Hwangjun Song received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Dept. Control and Instrumentation (EE), Seoul National University, Korea in 1990 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1994, he served (full-time) in Korea army. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at University of Southern California in May 1999. He was a Research Assistant/Associate at SIPI (Signal and Image Processing Institute) and IMSC (Integrated Media Systems Center) sponsored by NSF. From 2000 to 2005, he was an Assistant Professor/Vice Dean of Admission Affairs at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea. Since February, 2005, he has been with POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Korea.
His research interests include multimedia communication (H.32x, H.26x), wired/wireless network protocols necessary to implement a functional real-time image/video application, multimedia applications, image/video compression, digital signal processing, control system and fuzzy-neural system.
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 June-Koo (Kevin) Rhee |
June-Koo (Kevin) Rhee is a graduate from Seoul National University with B.E. (1988) and M.Sc. (1990), and from the University of Michigan with Ph.D. (1995), all in electrical engineering. He is currently with Information and Communications University (ICU) in South Korea, as an associate professor. Prior to the current position, he has been with Princeton University, USA (1995-1996), NEC Research Institute, USA (1996-1998), Corning Incorporated, USA (1998-2002), and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, S. Korea (2003-2005). His current research interest includes Optical Ethernet, 10GE-PON, MAC/Network Mobility Optimization, and Optical Packet Switching. He is listed in Marquise Who's Who in Science and Technology.
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