Kyung-Joon Park

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cellular: +1-217-419-6556
Email: kjp AT uiuc.edu

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Modeling, optimization, and control of wireless networks

• Design of reliable protocols for wireless medical networks

• Fundamental property analysis and rigorous design of wireless mesh networks

• Distributed control of physical carrier sense and transmit power in CSMA wireless networks

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Feb. 2005
  Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea
  Thesis: Theoretical analysis of estimation and provision of network bandwidth

• Visiting graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL, USA (Aug. 2001 - July 2002, advisor: Prof. Tamer Basar)

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Feb. 2000
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Feb. 1998
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

• Graduation from Seoul Science High School, Seoul, Korea, Feb. 1994

EXPERIENCES

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (under Prof. Lui Sha and also collaboration with Prof. P. R. Kumar), Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (Dec. 2007 - Present)

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (under Prof. Jennifer C. Hou, who is no more with us), Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (May 2006 - Nov. 2007)

• Senior Engineer, Telecommunication Network R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea (March 2005 - April 2006)

• Research Assistant, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

• Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

Courses

• Graduate courses at UIUC (course number, instructor, and grade): Optimization by Vector Space Methods (ECE 580, Tamer Basar, A), Introduction to Optimization (ECE 490, Seth Hutchinson, A), Communication Network Analysis (ECE 567, Bruce Hajek, audit), Wireless Networks (ECE 498NHV, Nitin Vaidya, audit), Analysis of Nonlinear Systems (ECE 528, Daniel Liberzon, audit)

• Graduate courses at SNU: Random Processes, Information Theory, Introduction to Queueing Theory, Circuit and Packet Switching, Computer Networks, Control Theory Applications in Communications and Networks, Broadband Telecommunications Technology, Linear System Theory, Linear Operator Theory, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Introduction to Neural Networks, Advanced Robotics

• Undergraduate math courses at SNU: Linear Algebra, Real Analysis I, Real Analysis II, Differential Equations, Number Theory

RECENT Publications

• Medium access control and routing protocols for wireless mesh network
  Jennifer C. Hou, Kyung-Joon Park, Tae-Suk Kim, and Lu-Chuan Kung
  Ekram Hossain and Kin K. Leung (Eds.), Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols, Springer, Oct. 2007.

• Contention control for high end-to-end throughput performance of wireless mesh networks
  Hyuk Lim, Daewon Jung, Jaeseon Hwang, Kyung-Joon Park, and Jennifer C. Hou
  Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference  (WICON) 2007, Austin, TX, USA
  October 22-24, 2007 (invited).

• Stochastic analysis of packet-pair probing for network bandwidth estimation
  Kyung-Joon Park, Hyuk Lim, and Chong-Ho Choi
  Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, Special Issue on "Network Modeling and Simulation",
  vol. 50, issue 12, pp. 1901-1915, August 2006.
  
  and many more...
  
  Complete list

CONTACT

4130 Siebel Center
201 N. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801-2302
USA

Cellular: +1-217-419-6556
Email: kjp AT uiuc.edu

Quote of the day
"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Last update: June 2, 2008.