Kyunghan Lee
Kyunghan Lee (IEEE Senior Member) is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Daejeon, Korea, in 2002, 2004, and 2009, respectively.
He is serving as an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computer Networks (Elsevier), and ICT Express. He has served as a General Co-Chair of IEEE ICNP 2025 and ACM MobiHoc 2022. He is a Next-Generation Member of KAST (Y-KAST) and the Chair of the Softwarization Committee of ORIA (Open RAN Industrial Alliance) of Korea.
He received ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award in 2021 and received two IEEE ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize in 2013 and 2016, respectively, given to the best original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in the previous three years.
His research interests include low-latency networking for 5G/6G, mobile machine learning, deep learning for image/video/data encoding, split computing, low-power computing, mobile systems for augmented/mixed reality, and human context modeling.
Prior to joining Seoul National University, he had been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) as an assistant professor and a tenured associate professor from 2012 to 2020; and worked in the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University as a senior research scholar and a postdoctoral scholar from 2010 to 2012.
Career
2023.09 - Present: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
2020.03 - 2023.08: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
2012.08 - 2020.02: Associate (Tenured)/Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIST
2010.04 - 2012.07: Senior Research Scholar/Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Honors and Awards
Winner of two IEEE William R. Bennett Prizes "The most honorable paper prize of IEEE on communications networking"
• IEEE ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize 2016
(toward "Mobile Data Offloading: How Can WiFi Deliver?, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Apr. 2013")
• IEEE ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize 2013
(toward "On the Levy walk nature of human mobility, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Jun. 2011")
• JCN Best Paper Award 2024
(toward "6G R&D Vision: Requirements and Candidate Technologies, Journal of Comms and Nets, Apr. 2022")
• ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award 2021
(toward "zTT: Learning-based DVFS with Zero Thermal Throttling for Mobile Devices, ACM MobiSys, Jun. 2021")
• Official Commendation from the Minister of Science and ICT of Korea 2021 (과학기술정보통신부 장관 표창)
(toward his contributions to the development of 5G/5G+ latency reduction technologies)
• Official Commendation from the Minister of Education of Korea 2018 (교육 부총리 겸 장관 표창)
(toward 50 NRF project PIs in recognition of their outstanding research outcome)
• Sinyang Outstanding Researcher Award from College of Engineering, SNU 2024 (신양공학학술상 - 학술부문)
• Okawa Research Grant Award from the Okawa Foundation, Japan 2024
• Lee Byoungho Excellence in Teaching Award 2025 (College of Engineering, Seoul National University, towards Introduction to Data Communications Networks)
• Best Teaching Faculty Award from KSEE (Korea Society for Engineering Education) 2022 (towards his Engineering Courses at SNU)
• Excellence in Teaching Award 2022 (ECE, Seoul National University, towards Introduction to Data Structures)
• Excellence in Teaching Award 2021 (ECE, Seoul National University, towards Introduction to Data Communications Networks)
• Bronze Prize (Daewook Hwang, Taekyung Han), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2025 (As advisor)
• Gold Prize (Jeongmin Bae, Jongyun Lee), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2024 (As advisor)
• Encouragement Prize (Shinik Park), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2024 (As advisor)
• Encouragement Prize (Wooseung Nam), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2024 (As advisor)
• Encouragement Prize (Jongseok Park), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2024 (As advisor)
• Bronze Prize (Sungyong Lee), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2022 (As advisor)
• Bronze Prize (Shinik Park), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2018 (As advisor)
• Silver Prize (Wooseung Nam), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2017 (As advisor)
• Bronze Prize (Euijin Jeong, Jaemin Jo), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2016 (As advisor)
• Silver Prize (Jaeseong Jeong), SAMSUNG HumanTech Paper Prize 2011 (As co-author)
• Silver Prize, SAMSUNG Human Tech Paper Prize 2010
• 1st place in the Silver Prize, Korea Physics Olympiad 1997 (while at Chungnam Science High School)
Professional Activities
EDITORS
• Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2020 - present
• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2020 - present
• Area Editor, Computer Networks (Elsevier) 2019 - present
• Associate Editor, ICT Express 2016 - present
• Editor, JCN (Journal of Communications and Networks) 2024 - present
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Opportunistic Networks, Computer Communications (Elsevier) 2014
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• General co-Chair, ACM MobiHoc 2022
• General Vice co-Chair, IEEE WCNC 2020
• Organizing Committee (Publicity Chairs), ACM MobiSys 2019
• Organizing Committee (Proceedings Chair), IEEE MDM 2017
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM 2025-2023, 2017 - 2016
• TPC member, ACM MobiHoc 2024 - 2019
• TPC member, ACM MobiSys 2022, 2016
• TPC Track Chair, IEEE CCNC 2024 - 2023
• TPC Vice Chair for information systems, IEEE SECON 2015
• TPC member, WiOPT 2022 - 2021
• TPC member, ACM CoNEXT 2020
• TPC Track Chair, IEEE WCNC 2020
• TPC member, COMSNETS 2020
• TPC member, ACM CHANTS 2019 - 2014
• TPC member, ACM CoNEXT student workshop 2019
• TPC member, IEEE Globecom (MWN) 2018 - 2017
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (DOMESTIC)
• PC Chair, HSN 2024
• SPC Vice Chair, ICTC 2021 - 2020
• TPC Vice Chair, KRnet (Korea) 2022 - 2016, 2013
• TPC Vice Chair, HSN (Korea) 2023 - 2019
• TPC Vice Chair, JCCI (Korea) 2020 - 2015
• TPC Vice Chair, KSC (Korea) 2018
CONTACT
E-mail: kyunghanlee@snu.ac.kr
Office: +82-2-880-1672
Location: Seoul National University, Building 301, Room 1006
Address: 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea