PROFESSOR

A Short Bio

Dr. Hyoil Kim is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea. He is currently the director of the Wireless and Mobile Networking Laboratory (WMNL) and was the Dean of Academic Information Affairs, both at UNIST.

He received his BS degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999, and his MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Before joining UNIST in 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, in 2010-2011.

His research interests lie in wireless/wired/mobile communications & networking, with an emphasis on AI-empowered networking, 5G/6G communications, Hyperloop communications, next-generation WLAN, mobile edge computing (MEC), VANET (vehicular networks), cognitive radio (CR), and dynamic spectrum access (DSA).

He served at the organizing committee at ACM MobiHoc 2022 (as a Local arrangement co-chair) and ACM WiNTECH 2013 (as a Publicity co-chair).  He also served as a program committee member at IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, ACM WiNTECH, IEEE GlobeCom, IEEE DySPAN, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, etc.  

He has been awarded the New Challenger Award from UNIST and the Achievement Award from KICS, both in 2024, and awarded as a Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM TPC in 2022 and 2025.

He is a senior member of the IEEE and the executive director of JCN at KICS.

Education

Ph.D in Electrical Engineering: Systems, The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 2010
– Major : Communications
– Dissertation : Efficient Identification and Utilization of Spectrum Opportunities in Cognitive Radio Networks
– Advisor : Prof. Kang G. Shin

M.S. in Electrical Engineering: Systems, The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 2005
– Major : Communications
– Advisor : Prof. Kang G. Shin

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea), 1999
– Thesis : ADPCM Encoder/Decoder Design using a DSP Chip and its Application to the Internet Phone

Work Experience

2020-         Professor, UNIST (Ulsan, Korea)
2020-2022 Dean of Academic Information Affairs, UNIST (Ulsan, Korea)
2015-2020 Associate Professor, UNIST (Ulsan, Korea)
2011-2015 Assistant Professor, UNIST (Ulsan, Korea)
2010-2011 Post-Doc Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
2006          Research Intern, Philips Research North America (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
2004-2010 Graduate Student Research Assistant, The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
1998-2003 System Engineer & Assistant Manager, Locus Corporation (Seoul, South Korea)

Honors

2025          Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM 2025 TPC
2024          Achievement Award (공로상), KICS
2024          New Challenger Award, College of Information and Biotechnology, UNIST
2022          Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM 2022 TPC
2019          Best paper award, KICS Fall Conference 2019
2015          Best paper award, ICTC 2015
2014          IEEE ComSoc’s Best Readings in CR (IEEE TMC, May 2008)
2012          The Spotlight paper of the issue (IEEE TMC, Nov. 2012)

Service and Activities

Membership
– IEEE, Senior Member
– IEEE, Communications Society (ComSoc)
– KICS, Executive Director of JCN

Journal Editor
– Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN)
– Computer Networks
– Ad Hoc Networks, Guest editor (SI on Self-organizing and Smart Protocols for Heterogeneous Ad hoc Networks)
– IEEE Trans. on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), Guest editor (Special section from IEEE DySPAN 2018)

Organizing Committee
- ACM MobiHoc 2022 (as a Local arrangement co-chair)
– ACM WiNTECH 2013 (as a Publicity co-chair)

Technical Program Committee
– IEEE INFOCOM (2014,2016-2017,2021-2025)
– IEEE SECON (2020-2024)
– ACM WiNTECH 2013
– IEEE GlobeCom (2011-2015,2017-2018)
– IEEE DySPAN (2018,2019,2021,2024)
– IEEE WCNC (2016,2020-2023)
– IEEE PIMRC (2015-2020)
– IEEE VTC (2014,2017,2020)
– IEEE MSN 2021
– ICTC (2014-2022)
– ICAIIC (2021,2024)
– ICUFN (2012-2017)
– ICOIN (2020-2021,2023-2024)