Kwang Taik Kim, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor of Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
As a communications and networking researcher, he is particularly interested in 5G/NextG ajar/open RAN architectures, open edge platforms, implementation aspects of digital communications, real-time wireless networking protocols and large-scale distributed computing, and machine learning in the realms of wireless system design. His research is primarily focused on providing feasibility studies for cutting-edge theoretical breakthroughs in wireless communications and networking through experimentation with 5G and NextG wireless systems.
Kwang is a co-author of more than 30 research articles and holds 43 issued U.S. and worldwide patents, as well as over 20 pending patent applications. He has received funding from a variety of sources, including Wistron, Cisco, the United States Army Research Lab, AT&T, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and NineTwelve. He is now heading various initiatives on open edge platforms, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G network protocols, and software radio architectures to enable reliable autonomous systems. He co-authored the book 5G System Design – Architectural and Functional Considerations and Long Term Research (Wiley, 2018).
He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. In addition to his academic position, he serves as an Executive Technology Advisor for the Purdue Research Foundation. Prior to joining Purdue, he worked at Samsung Electronics and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a Principal Engineer and Senior Research Staff Member, respectively. He is the recipient of 2021 ACM MobiHoc Best Paper Award, the 2016 Samsung Best Paper Award (Gold Prize) for Communication and Network Division, the 2014 Samsung CEO Award of Honor for Technical Division, and the 2013 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology President Award for Infinity Research R&D. Kwang has had the honor of conducting research with multiple postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and industry engineers, and he is interested in bridging the divide between theory and practice. To that end, he has served as a contributing member of the ATIS Next G Alliance’s National 6G Roadmap and Technology Working Groups.
News
- November 2023: Purdue University and six leading companies releasing the joint Roadmap to 6G Report: a taxonomy of 12 innovations across technology stack and over the time horizon to 2030. Kwang is a co-author for the 6G Global Roadmap: Taxonomy Report.
- July 2023: Kwang is a guest editor of a special issue of the Elsevier Computer Networks on Evolution of Networked AI Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities. Please consider submitting your work!
- June 2023: Kwang is a Program & General Co-Chair for MobiSys 2023 Workshop on Networked AI Systems, to be held in Helsinki, Finland on June 18, 2023. Please consider submitting your work!
- April 2023: Our paper on An empirical study of 5G: Effect of edge on transport protocol and application performance has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing. Congrats, Hyoyoung and Jinsung!
- March 2023: Our paper on Multi-edge server-assisted dynamic federated learning with an optimized floating aggregation point has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Congrats, Bhargav and Ali!
- January 2023: Our paper on successive cancellation integer forcing via practical binary codes has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Congrats, Seok-Ki and Sungho!
- December 2022: Our project on open edge platform supported by Wistron Corporation has begun. Also, our patent on apparatus and method of low complexity enhanced scheduling for sliding-window coded modulation has been issued to USPTO.
- October 2022: Kwang is a member of the team for NEXT G Center (XGC) for Communications and Sensing at Purdue University.
- September 2022: Kwang joins the Editorial Board of the IEEE Networking Letters. Also, our project on open edge platform (Principal Investigator) has been funded by Wistron Corporation.
- July 2022: Our patent on method and apparatus for supporting low-rate coding based on turbo codes has been issued to KIPO. Also, our patent on apparatus and method for transmitting signal using sliding-window superposition coding in a wireless network has been issued to KIPO.
- June 2022: Our project on Wi-Fi 6E and 5G supported by Cisco Research has begun. Also, our paper on DAG-based task orchestration for edge computing has been accepted to the 41st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2022). Congrats, Xiang, Shikhar, and Mustafa!
- April 2022: Our project on Wi-Fi 6E and 5G (single Principal Investigator) has been funded by Cisco Research.
- February 2022: Our paper on novel framework for cost constrained network sharing has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Congrats, Eric!
- December 2021: Our patent on transceiver and control signaling for interference management has been issued to KIPO.
- October 2021: Kwang is a staff of 6G Roadmap Task Force in Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.
- September 2021: Our patent on method and apparatus for controlling an interference has been issued to KIPO.
- August 2021: Our paper on adversarial deep unfolding network for error correcting codes has been accepted to Globecom 2021. Also, our paper on on-the-fly resource-aware model aggregation for federated learning in heterogeneous edge has been accepted to Gloebcom 2021. Congrats, Hung and Roberto!
- July 2021: Our paper on minimizing age-of-information has won the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc 2021).
- May, 2021: Our paper on minimizing age-of-information has been accepted to MobiHoc 2021. Congrats, Yihan!
- April, 2021: Our patent on scheduling for sliding-window coded modulation has been published to USPTO.
- March, 2021: Our patent on feedback scheme for network coding has been issued to KIPO. Also, our patent on multicast relaying method and apparatus has been issued to KIPO.
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor, IEEE Networking Letters
- Technical program committee member, Posters Session and Student Research Competition, ACM Mobicom 2021
- Technical program committee member, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G
- Technical program committee member, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Smart Data Pricing for Next-Generation Networks
- Technical program committee member, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium Sarnoff 2019
