Joonhyuk Kang was born in Seoul, KOREA. He received his B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. He is currently working as a faculty member of School of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Korea.
From 1993 to 1998, he was a research staff at SAMSUNG Electronics (Suwon, Korea), where he involved in the development of DSP-based real-time control systems. In 2000, he worked at Cwill Telecommunications (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.), where he participated in the project for multi-carrier CDMA systems with antenna array. He was a visiting scholar in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) from 2008 to 2009.
His research interest includes signal processing for information transmission, security, and machine cognition.
He is a recipient of the IEEE VTS Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2021 for his paper titled “Mobile Edge Computing via a UAV-Mounted Cloudlet: Optimization of Bit Allocation and Path Planning.”
