Jy-yong Sohn (손지용)
Jy-yong Sohn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Statistics at Yonsei University. Before joining Yonsei in March 2023, he spent two wonderful years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working with Prof. Dimitris Papailiopoulos and Prof. Kangwook Lee. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from KAIST, advised by Prof. Jaekyun Moon.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical EngineeringKAIST · 2020 · Advisor: Jaekyun Moon
- M.S. in Electrical EngineeringKAIST · 2016 · Advisor: Jaekyun Moon
- B.S. in Electrical EngineeringKAIST · 2014
Experience
- Associate ProfessorYonsei University · 2026–present
- Assistant ProfessorYonsei University · 2023–2026
- Visiting ResearcherKrafton AI · 2023
- Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · 2021–2022
- Postdoctoral ResearcherKAIST · 2020–2021
- Visiting ResearcherUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · 2019–2020
- Research InternLG Electronics R&D Center · 2011
Honors & awards
- · Best Paper Award, KSEA UKC (2022)
- · Rising Star Award, KSEA SEED (2022)
- · Post-doc Fellowship, NRF (2020–2022)
- · QUALCOMM–KAIST Innovation Award (2019, 2015)
- · KAIST Kim Younghan Global Leader Fellowship (2019)
- · KAIST EE Best Research Achievement Award — Kim Choong-Ki Award (2018)
- · Excellence in Research Award, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST (2017)
- · Satellite Technology Research Center Fellowship (2017 Fall – 2018 Spring)
- · Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (2017)
- · QUALCOMM IT Tour 13th — Field trip to HQ R&D Center, San Diego (2015)
Academic services
- TPC Member
- ACM MobiSys Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (2021, 2022)
- Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Mobile Computing, Communications, Networking, Vehicular Technology, and Wireless Communications; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; IEEE Access; IEEE Wireless Communications Letters; ETRI Journal
- Conference Reviewer
- NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, ISIT
Personal experience
- · GRIT, KAIST (Feb 2017 – Feb 2021) Founded and led the Graduate Research Inspiring Team — 10 KAIST students sharing perspectives on research and life through bi-weekly meetings and invited talks.
- · Arpeggio — a team blog of 7 members (Mar 2016 – Jun 2016)
- · Study on the Analects of Confucius (논어) (Mar 2015 – Jun 2015)
- · KAIST EE Newsletter (Mar 2010 – Feb 2012)
- · KAIST Chorus — Choir, A Cappella Concert (Mar 2009 – Feb 2014)