Biography of Editorial Board Member

Prof. Dr. Yeong Min Jang
Department of Electronics Engineering, Kookmin University, South Korea
Email: [email protected]

Biography: Yeong Min Jang (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, USA, in 1999. From 1987 to 2000, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic of Korea. Since 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, where was the Director of the Ubiquitous IT Convergence Center from 2005 to 2010. He has been the Director of the LED Convergence Research Center, Kookmin University, since 2010, the Director of the Internet of Energy Research Center, Kookmin University, since 2018, and the Director of the AI Mobility Research Institute, Kookmin University, since 2021. His research interests include 5G/6G mobile communications, the Internet of Energy, the IoT platform, AI platform, eHealth, smart factory, optical wireless communications, optical camera communication, AI mobility, and the Internet of Things. Dr. Jang is also a fellow of the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS). He had served as an Executive Director for KICS from 2006 to 2014. He was the President of KICS in 2019. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Korean Government from 2003 to 2006. He was a recipient of the Dr. Irwin Jacobs Award in 2018. He had also served as the Founding Chair for the KICS Technical Committee on Communication Networks in 2007 and 2008. He was/has been the Steering Chair of the Multi-Screen Service Forum from 2011 to 2019, the Society Safety System Forum from 2015 to 2021, and the ESG Convergence Forum since 2022. He has also served as the Chairman for the IEEE 802.15 Optical Camera Communications Study Group in 2014, and the IEEE 802.15.7m Optical Wireless Communications Task Group from 2015 to 2019 and successfully published IEEE 802.15.7-2018 and ISO 22738:2020 standard. He has been the Chairman of IEEE 802.15.7a Higher Rate and Longer Range OCC TG, since 2020. He has organized several conferences and workshops, such as the International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks from 2009 to 2017, the International Conference on ICT Convergence from 2010 to 2016, the International Workshop on Optical Wireless LED Communication Networks from 2013 to 2016, the International Conference on Information Networking in 2015, and the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication since 2019. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of ICT Express (indexed by SCIE). He has also been granted more than 120 patents.