Papers continuously published in world's most authoritative academic journal published by IEEE
Research achievements in communications and network recognized internationally
[November 12, 2014]

Department of Information and Communication Engineering Professor Nam Seung-yeop was appointed as a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's most acclaimed group in the electric, electronic, communication, and computer sector.

The IEEE, which was established in 1884, is a non-profit organization comprised of 430,000 technology experts as members from around the world including engineers, scientists, educators, and technical executives of companies. In particular, the academic journal published by the IEEE is recognized to have the world's highest authority in the sector.

Professor Nam Seung-yeob continuously published papers in not only the world's most prominent academic journal, ‘IEEE/ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Transactions on Networking’, but also ‘IEEE Transactions on Communications’, and ‘IEEE Communications Letters’, and is thus receiving international recognition for his research achievements in the communications and networks sectors.

The main field of research for Professor Nam is on internet measurement and observation and mathematical analysis of communication protocols in the internet service quality control technologies and wireless communication environment. Professor Nam said, "I have been researching various issues of network security lately and I am publishing my research results that received support from the Korea Internet & Security Agency and National Research Foundation in academic journals and seminars." He added, "I am currently receiving funding from the National Research Foundation to carry out research on methods to configure reliability of messages exchanged between vehicles in a vehicle network."

IEEE senior members are selected after rigid evaluations of candidates who are currently IEEE members and have at least 10 years of experience in their field of expertise and at least five years of continuously outstanding achievements. It is very difficult as one can only become a candidate by receiving recommendations from a minimum of three IEEE fellows or senior members. Currently, only 7% of all IEEE members are IEEE senior members. IEEE senior members have life-time tenures and they are given the authority to recommend new senior IEEE members and evaluate candidates.

Meanwhile, Professor Nam earned his PhD in electric and electronic engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology and worked on his post-doctorate program at the Carnegie Mellon University and KAIST from September 2004 to February 2007. He was appointed as a professor in information and communication engineering in March 2007 and is currently serving as its dean. He received the 'Best Paper Award' at the 2000 APCC (Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications) and 'bronze medal' at the Samsung Human Tech Paper Awards, and he is currently serving as an editing committee member of the Korea Society for Simulation journal and a member of the operating committee of various international academic conferences such as the IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications and Networking Conference), as well as a member of the Technical Program Committee.