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Contact Information

Name Yongjeong Oh
Professional Title Research Fellow
Email yongjeongoh@postech.ac.kr
Location 8 Somapah Road, Singapore, Singapore 487372

Professional Summary

Research Fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) working on semantic communications, AI-native air interfaces, and communication-efficient distributed learning.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Singapore

    Research Fellow
    Singapore University of Technology and Design
    • Research Advisor: Prof. Jihong Park
  • 2024 - 2024

    Geelong, Australia

    Visiting Researcher
    Deakin University
    • Host: Prof. Jihong Park
  • 2020 - 2021

    Busan, South Korea

    Undergraduate Research Intern
    Pusan National University
    • Advisor: Prof. Wonjae Shin

Education

  • 2023 - 2026

    Pohang, South Korea

    Ph.D.
    Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
    Electrical Engineering
    • Advisor: Prof. Yo-Seb Jeon
    • Thesis: “Towards Optimal Semantic Communications: Reconsidering the Role of Semantic Feature Channels”
  • 2021 - 2023

    Pohang, South Korea

    M.S.
    Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
    Electrical Engineering
    • Advisor: Prof. Yo-Seb Jeon
    • Thesis: “Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Quantized Compressed Sensing”
  • 2015 - 2021

    Busan, South Korea

    B.S. (Summa Cum Laude)
    Pusan National University (PNU)
    Electronics Engineering

Awards

  • 2026
    PIURI Postdoctoral Fellowship
    POSTECH
  • 2026
    Excellence Award, 5th POSTECH-EE Excellent Research Performance Contest
    POSTECH Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 2026
    Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
    POSTECH Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 2026
    Bronze Prize, SAMSUNG Humantech Paper Awards
    Samsung Electronics

    KRW 5,000,000

  • 2025
    POSTECHIAN Fellowship
    POSTECH

    KRW 6,000,000

  • 2024
    Research Subsidies for Ph.D. Candidates
    National Research Foundation of Korea

    KRW 25,000,000

  • 2023
    Best Paper Award, KICS Summer Conference
    Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
  • 2023
    Best Master's Thesis Award
    POSTECH Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 2023
    Excellence Award, 2nd POSTECH-EE Excellent Research Performance Contest
    POSTECH Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 2022
    Best Paper Award, KICS Summer Conference
    Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
  • 2020
    Undergraduate Student Best Paper Award, KICS Summer Conference
    Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences

Professional Services

Interests

Research: Wireless Communications, Semantic Communications, AI-Native Air Interface, Federated Learning, Distributed Learning, Communication-Efficient Deep Learning