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

Presentation Title: Bigdata, 5G Networks, and AI based Virtual Power Plant

Biography: Prof. Yeong Min Jang (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics engineering from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1999. He was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute from 1987 to 2000. Since 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea, where he was the Director of the Ubiquitous IT Convergence Center in 2005 and 2010, and has been the Director of the LED Convergence Research Center since 2010 and the Director of the Internet of Energy Research Center since 2018. He is currently a Life Member of the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. His research interests include 5G/6G mobile communications, Internet of energy, IoT platform, AI platform, eHealth, smart factory, optical wireless communications, optical camera communication, and the Internet of Things. Prof. Jang 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 Conference on AI in Information and Communication from 2019 to 2021, the International Conference on Information Networking in 2015, and the International Workshop on Optical Wireless LED Communication Networks from 2013 to 2016. He was the recipient of the Young Science Award from the Korean Government from 2003 to 2006. He had served as the Founding Chair of the KICS Technical Committee on Communication Networks in 2007 and 2008. He was the Executive Director of KICS from 2006 to 2014, the Vice President of KICS from 2014 to 2016, and an Executive Vice President of KICS in 2018. He was the President of KICS in 2019. He serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the ICT Express (Elsevier). He was the Steering Chair of the Multi-Screen Service Forum from 2011 to 2019 and has been the Steering Chair of the Society Safety System Forum since 2015. He served as the Chairman of the IEEE 802.15 Optical Camera Communications Study Group in 2014 and the IEEE 802.15.7m Optical Wireless Communications TG. He successfully published IEEE 802.15.7–2018 standard. He is currently the Chairman of IEEE 802.15 VAT IG.