Young-Han Kim — BiographyYoung-Han Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Kim’s research primarily focuses on network information theory and the role of feedback in communication networks. More broadly, he is interested in statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, control, computation, networking, data compression, and learning. Professor Kim received his B.S. degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, in 1996, where he was a recipient of the General Electric Foundation Scholarship. After a three-and-half-year stint as a software architect at Tong Yang Systems, Seoul, Korea, working on several industry projects such as developing the communication infrastructure for then newly opening Incheon International Airport, he resumed his graduate studies at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (M.S. degrees in Statistics and in Electrical Engineering) in 2006. Professor Kim is a recipient of the 2008 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the 2009 US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation Bergmann Memorial Award. |