Joongheon Kim (Senior Member, IEEE) has been with Korea University, Seoul, Korea, since September 2019, and he is currently an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering. He is also a vice director of the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Research Center at Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively; and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA, in 2014. Before joining Korea University, he was a research engineer at LG Electronics CTO Office, Seoul, Korea, from 2006 to 2009; an intern at InterDigital, San Diego, California, USA, in 2012; a systems engineer at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara in Silicon Valley, California, USA,
from 2013 to 2016; and an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Chung- Ang University, Seoul, Korea, from 2016 to 2019. He is a senior member of the IEEE and serves as an associate/guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Computer Networks (Elsevier), and ICT Express (Elsevier).
He was a recipient of the Annenberg Graduate Fellowship with his Ph.D. admission from USC (2009), Intel Corporation Next Generation and Standards (NGS) Division Recognition Award (2015), Haedong Young Scholar Award by KICS (2018), Paper Awards from IEEE Seoul Section Student Paper Contests (2019 and 2020), IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award (2020), IEEE ICOIN Best Paper Award (2021), Haedong Paper Award by KICS (2021), and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Seoul Chapter Awards (2019 and 2021).
Lecture Topics
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Mobility
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Networks
- Resource Allocation for B5G/6G Wireless Networks
- Federated and Split Distributed Learning
- Networked and Distributed Computing for AR/VR/MR Systems