Girim Kwon is an assistant professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory (WINS Lab) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea. 

His main areas of research are in statistical inference, information theory, optimization methods, and machine learning with applications to real-world problems, including wireless communications, network localization and navigation, and non-terrestrial networks.

Dr. Kwon received the S-Oil Best Dissertation Award in 2021, the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from KAIST in 2020, the ICT Paper Award from the Electronic Times in 2018, and the Global Ph.D. Fellowship from the Korean Government in 2015. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2020

- Dissertation: User Scheduling and Beamforming Design for Millimeter Wave MIMO Communications

  (received two Best Dissertation Awards from KAIST and Korean Academy of Science and Technology)

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2014

- Thesis: Design of Multi-User Hybrid Beamforming Systems in Millimeter Wave Channel

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), University of Seoul, 2013

Professional Experience

• University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Sep. 2024–present)

- Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (Sep. 2021–Aug. 2024)

- Postdoctoral Fellow, Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory

• University of Ferrara, Ferrara, FE, Italy (May 2023–May 2023)

- Visiting Scholar, Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea (Mar. 2020–Aug. 2021)

- Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering

Seunghwan Cha is an incoming M.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include 6G non-terrestrial networks, focusing on Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and multi-antenna technologies.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• Non-terrestrial networks

- Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications

- Beamforming

Seungha Yun is an incoming M.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include cell-free MIMO networks, focusing on integrated sensing and communication.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• Cell-free MIMO networks

- Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems

- Integrated sensing and communication

Junhyuk Bang is a B.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include MIMO systems and localization for 6G wireless networks.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• 6G wireless networks

- Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems

- Network localization and navigation

Incheol Jeong is a B.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include beamforming and localization for 6G wireless networks.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• 6G wireless networks

- Beamforming

- Network localization and navigation

Jaewon Jang is a B.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include MIMO systems and localization for 6G wireless networks.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• 6G wireless networks

- Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems

- Network localization and navigation

Chaeyeon Kim is a B.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for 6G wireless networks.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• 6G wireless networks

- AI-RAN

- Beamforming

Sieun Kim is a B.S. student in the next generation wireless networks (NGWN) lab at the University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for 6G wireless networks.

Education

• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, 2025

Research Interest

• 6G wireless networks

- AI-RAN

- Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems