Sunghyun Cho

Professor Sunghyun Cho

Professor
School of Computer Science
College of Computing, Hanyang University ERICA
Mobile Communication and Computing Lab.

Dean, College of Computing
Vice President, The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE)

Room 516, 5th Floor
Academic-Industry-Research Cluster Support Center
55 Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu
Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do 15588, Republic of Korea
Office: +82-31-400-5670
chopro@hanyang.ac.kr
http://mcc.hanyang.ac.kr

Research Interests

Wireless Communication Systems

5G Wireless Technologies, Vehicular Communications

ICBM

IoT, Cloud, Big-Data, and Mobile

Network Security

Protocol Security, IoT Security

Bio-Communications

Health Care Device & S/W, New UI/UX with bio information

Academic and Professional Experience

2012.09 – present

Professor

School of Computer Science, College of Computing, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan, Korea

Research and responsibilities
  • Next Generation Communications Systems (5G, VANET)
  • ICBM (IoT, Cloud, Big-Data, and Mobile)
  • IoT Platform
  • Network Security
  • Bio-Communications & New UI/UX
2009.09 – 2012.08

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

Research and responsibilities
  • Femtocell / Micro base stations systems
  • Network coding
  • Mobile software (applications for iPhone, small-size S/W for mobile devices)
2008.02 – 2009.08

Full Time Lecturer

Division of IT, Hansei University, Korea

2006.10 – 2008.02

Postdoctoral Fellow

Prof. Cioffi`s Group (in STAR Lab.), Stanford University, USA (Advisor: Prof. John M. Cioffi)

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Research and responsibilities
  • Next generation communications systems & networks
  • Cooperative communications
2006.01 – 2006.10

MAC Part Leader

Telecommunication R&D Center, Samsung Electronics

Research and responsibilities
  • Design radio air interface for the beyond-3G systems
  • Develop 4G trial systems
    • OFDM-MIMO based Outdoor System
    • 1Gbps (Fixed Users), up to 100Mbps (Mobile Users)
  • Design network architecture for the beyond-3G systems
2001.09 – 2005.12

Senior Engineer

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Research and responsibilities
  • Design radio air interface (PHY/MAC layer) for the WiBro system & IEEE 802.16e
  • Design and verify radio air interface for the 4G systems
  • Develop handover algorithm, scheduling, intercell interference management for the 4G systems
  • Develop MAC-PHY cross layer simulator for the performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.16e OFDMA mode

Visiting Appointments

2004.03 – 2004.06

Visiting Scholar

STAR Lab., Stanford University (Advisor: Prof. John M. Cioffi)

1999.11 – 2000.02

Visiting Researcher

Bell Lab., Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

Performance evaluation of DOCSIS 1.1 (IEEE 802.16) MAC Layer with OPNET

Education

2001.08

Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea (Advisor: Prof. Sung-Han Park)

1997.02

M.S.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea

1995.02

B.S.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea

Administrative Appointments

2025.01 – present

Dean

College of Computing, Hanyang University ERICA

2023.07 – 2024.08

기획부처장

Hanyang University ERICA

2020.09 – 2025.02

4단계 BK21 인공지능융합교육연구단장

Hanyang University ERICA

Professional Service

Academic Society and Editorial Service

2026.01 – present

Vice President (elected)

The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE)

국제협력 및 국제학술 담당, 80주년 및 80년사 담당

2018 – present

Associate Editor

IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing & Computing (Communications)

2025

상임이사

IEIE

추계학술대회 조직위원장

2024

상임이사

IEIE

국문논문 총괄편집위원장, 선거관리위원회, 포상위원회, 하계학술대회 조직위원

2023

상임이사

IEIE

정보화위원회 총괄위원장, 표준화위원회 위원장

2022

상임이사

IEIE

사업위원회, 하계학술대회 조직위원

2021

상임이사

IEIE

사업위원회

2020

통신연구회 위원장

IEIE Telecommunications Society

2020

협동이사

IEIE

하계학술대회 조직위원, 사업위원회, 학술연구위원회

2019

협동이사

IEIE

총무간사

2014

협동이사

IEIE

추계학술대회 조직위원

1997 – present

Member

IEIE

Lifetime Member since 2009

International Conference Service

2027

Organizing Committee Co-Chair

ICEIC 2027

2026

General Chair

ICCE-Asia 2026

2025

Special Session Co-Chair

ICEIC 2025

2016

TPC Co-Chair

ICCE-Asia 2016

2014

Secretary

ISCE 2014

Standardization Activity

2005.03 – present

3GPP LTE RAN1/2, IEEE 802.16j standardization

2004.03 – 2005.08

IEEE 802.16e MAC/PHY standardization

2003.03 – 2005.08

TTA WiBro MAC/PHY standardization

Honors and Awards

2025

추계학술대회 최우수논문상

IEIE

2022

Ministerial Commendation

Ministry of Science and ICT

For contributions to research and development in next-generation networks (5G and 6G).

2020

공로상

IEIE

2020

우수연구 공로상

Hanyang University

2017

Teaching Excellence Award

Hanyang University

Patents

International (US, EU, Japan, China)

about 35 filed patents (Subject: Wireless Communications, OFDM Systems, Network Architecture, Cellular Phone, etc)

Domestic (Korea)

more than 10 granted patents