Kyungrak Son

Assistant Professor

Biography

Kyungrak Son received the B.S. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2014, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from from the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, in 2016 and 2021, respectively. From Sep. 2021 to Aug. 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. In 2019 and 2022, he was a visiting scholar at electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Currently, from Sep. 2023, he is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Yongin, South Korea. His research interests include wireless communications, coding/ information theory, signal processing, applications of discrete mathematics, abstract algebra in various information systems.

Education

Ph. D in Electrical Engineering

Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2021

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Adivsor: Prof. Wan Choi
Thesis: Coded Multicasting and Coded Computing for Wireless Edge Processing

MSc in Electrical Engineering

Mar. 2014 - Feb. 2016

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Adivsor: Prof. Wan Choi
Thesis: Sliding Window Superposition Coding in two user MIMO Interference Channel

BSc in Electrical Engineering

Feb. 2010 - Feb. 2014

Double major in Mathematical Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea

Experiences

Visiting Scholar

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019 & Aug. 2022 - Jan. 2023
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA (Host - Aditya Ramamoorthy)
  • Studying distributed/ quantum computing
  • Studying representation theory, combinatorial design

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2023
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Research & Teaching Assistant

Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2021
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Mainly participated in six projects
  • Teaching assistant for six courses

Publications (International Journal)

H. Song, B. Koo, K. Son , and W. Choi, ''Joint optimization of edge computing server deployment and user offloading associations in wireless edge network via a genetic learning algorithm,'' IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng., vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 2535-2548, Jul.-Aug. 2022.
K. Son and W. Choi, ''Distributed matrix multiplication based on frame quantization for straggler mitigation,'' IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., vol. 70, pp. 3058 - 3073, June 2022.
H. Song, K. Son , and W. Choi, ''Joint design of shuffling and function assignment for communication load reduction in distributed coded computing,'' IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., vol. 70, pp. 2560-2575, May 2022.
H. Seo, H. Lee, K. Son , and W. Choi, ''Private real-time status updating,'' IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 239-243, Feb. 2022.
K. Son , A. Ramamoorthy, and W. Choi, ''Distributed matrix multiplication using group algebra for on-device edge computing,'' IEEE Sig. Proc. Lett., vol. 28, pp. 2097-2101, Oct. 2021.
H. Seo, K. Son , S. Park, and W. Choi, ''Communication-efficient private information acquisition: multicasting via crowding,'' IEEE Trans. Vehi. Technol., vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 7199-7204, July 2021.
K. Son , J. H. Lee, and W. Choi, ''Wireless index coded transmission by spatial multiplexing with multiple antennas,'' IEEE Trans. Vehi. Technol., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 5104-5108, May 2021.
K. Son , J. H. Lee, and W. Choi, ''User-cache aided transmission with index coding in K-user downlink channels,'' IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 6043-6058, Dec. 2019.

Submitted or In Preparation

K. Son and W. Choi, ''Coded matrix computation in wireless networks,'' Submitted to IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., (In major revision)
K. Son, J. H. Lee, and W. Choi, ''ICNet: index coding neural network based on graph isomorphism,''
K. Son, S. Park, and W. Choi, ''Numerically stability analysis of random coefficient based coded matrix computation,'' in preparation.
K. Son and W. Choi, ''Numerically computations using Steiner systems,'' in preparation.
+ 3 papers in preparation.

Conferences

H. Song, K. Son , and W. Choi, ''Wireless Embedded Index Coded Transmissions with Multiple Antennas,'' accepted to IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC).
K. Son and A. Ramamoorthy, ''Coded matrix computation with gradient coding,'' in Proc. of IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023, pp. 1-6.
K. Son , and W. Choi, ''Single group multicast beamformer design using active constraints,'' in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), Jeju, Korea, Oct. 2020, pp. 1-6.
K. Son , J. H. Lee, and W. Choi, ''Optimization of index code and transmission time for minimum outage in broadcast channels,'' in Proc. of IEEE IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2018, pp. 1-6.

Projects

Post-doc Domestic and Overseas Training