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.  He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems from Apr. 2026.

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, Republic of Korea (Mar. 2020–Aug. 2021)

- Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering