GIST NetAI Laboratory

DongHwan Ku

M.S./Ph.D. Student @ NetAI Lab, GIST

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Research Interests

Lifecycle-Oriented Living Digital Twin
Edge Cloud Management for Scalable Digital Twin Simulation

Education

2020.09. – Current: Integrated M.S./Ph.D. Student of Artificial Intelligence Graduate School, GIST, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. JongWon Kim)
2017. 03. – 2020.08.: Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Cyber Security, Kyungil University, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Hyunsung Kim) (GPA 4.38 / 4.5)

Publications

International Journal

[IJ-3] DongHwan Ku, Sun Park, and JongWon Kim, "Quantitative Stress Testing Using Scalable Digital Twin Simulation with MobileX Pole for Intelligent Mobile Surveillance," Computers, Materials, & Continua, vol. 88, no. 2, June 2026. (DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2026.079582). [SCI-E, IF=2.4]
[IJ-2] DongHwan Ku, Hannie Zang, Anvarjon Yusupov, Sun Park, and JongWon Kim, "Vehicle-to-Everything-Car Edge Cloud Management with Development, Security, and Operations Automation Framework," Electronics, vol. 14, no. 3, Jan. 2025. (DOI: 10.3390/electronics14030478). [SCI-E, IF=2.6]
[IJ-1] DongHwan Ku and Hyunsung Kim, "Enhanced User Authentication with Privacy for IoT-Based Medical Care System," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, Aug. 2018. (DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2018.V10.1212).

International Conference

[IC-7] DongHwan Ku, Anvarjon Yusupov, Sun Park, and JongWon Kim, "Prototyping Cloud-native V2X-Car-Edge Cloud for Mobility-AI Services Support," in Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (13th ICAEIC-2024), Jeju, Korea, July 2024.
[IC-6] Sun Park, Ji Kang Hoon, DongHwan Ku, Anvarjon Yusupov, and JongWon Kim, "Autonomous Driving Test Environment employing HiLS Data Collection and Verification," in Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (13th ICAEIC-2024), Jeju, Korea, July 2024.
[IC-5] Anvarjon Yusupov, Sun Park, DongHwan Ku, and JongWon Kim, "Temporal Synchronization of Multi-Camera Streams over Multiple Data Concentrator Units for V2X-CarEdge Cloud," in Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (13th ICAEIC-2024), Jeju, Korea, July 2024.
[IC-4] Sun Park, DongHwan Ku, Anvarjon Yusupov, and JongWon Kim, "Design of Cloud-native Edge-based Software Framework for AI-DCU employing Hybrid-V2X Connectivity," in Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (11th ICAEIC-2023), Jeju, Korea, July 2023.
[IC-3] Sun Park, Ji Kang Hoon, DongHwan Ku, Anvarjon Yusupov, and JongWon Kim, "Design of Virtual Road Driving Test Environment with Driving Simulator and DCU for Bad Weather SiLS Data Collection and Verification," in Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Engineering and ICT-Convergence (10th ICAEIC-2023), Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 2023.
[IC-2] DongHwan Ku and Hyunsung Kim, "An Autonomous Fire Alarm System on Resource Constraints IoT Environment," in Proc. of the 543rd International Conference on Vehicular, Mobile and Wearable Technology, Jeju, Korea, May 2019.
[IC-1] DongHwan Ku, Hae-Won Choi, and Hyunsung Kim, "Pedestrian Counting System in Real Time Image based on Haar-Cascade Classifier," in Proc. of 218th The IIER International Conference, London, United Kingdom, Jan. 2019.

Domestic (Korean) Conference

[KC-7] DongHwan Ku, Sun Park, and JongWon Kim, "Design and Implementation of Mobile SmartX Pole for V2X Communication Data Collection of Cloud-native Edge Cluster," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2024 Winter Conference, Pyeongchang, Korea, Jan. 2024.
[KC-6] DongHwan Ku, Anvarjon Yusupov, Sun Park, and JongWon Kim, "A Design of Multiple Data Fusion Environment on Cloud-native Edge Cluster Using Driving Simulator," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2023 Summer Conference, Jeju, Korea, June 2023.
[KC-5] DongHwan Ku and JongWon Kim, "A Design of Visibility Support on Cloud-native Edge Cluster Using Open Source Software," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2022 Winter Conference, Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2022.
[KC-4] Ho Kim, DongHwan Ku, and JongWon Kim, "Cloud-native Metadata Lake using OpenCAS," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2022 Winter Conference, Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2022.
[KC-3] DongHwan Ku, Yura Choi, Jun-Sik Shin, and JongWon Kim, "Construction of Cloud-native Edge Cluster for AI+X Playground," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2021 Winter Conference, Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2021.
[KC-2] DongHwan Ku, Seunghyung Lee, and JongWon Kim, "Visualizing Operation Cost of Cloud-native SmartX AI Cluster for Resource Efficiency," in Proc. of the KICS (Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences) 2019 Fall Conference, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2019.
[KC-1] DongHwan Ku and Hyunsung Kim, "Research on Device Authentication Scheme in Internet of Things," in Proc. of the IEIE (Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers) 2017 Summer Conference, Busan, Korea, June 2017.

Research Systems

Participated Projects

Development of hyper-connected mobility safety technology based on AI

Funding Agency: KAIA (Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement)
Role: Research Assistant, supporting GIST Team (Mar. 2024 ~ Current)
Development of edge cloud for multi-source data acquisition and accumulation

V2X-based Connected Platform for Responding to External Environments such as Bad Weather

Funding Agency: NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency)
Role: Research Assistant, leading Task 3 (July 2020 ~ Dec. 2024)
[Task 3] Development of distributed XAI-DCU for multiple data analysis

Adaptive Design Technique for System Expansion

Funding Agency: ADD (Agency for Defense Development)
Role: Research Assistant, supporting Task 4 (May 2021 ~ Feb. 2022)
[Task 4] Scenario-based simulation and analysis of video convergence performance indicators

Experience

Dec. 2025 – Current: Instructor, Digital Twin for AX Program, GIST AI Graduate School
Mar. 2026 – June 2026: Teaching Assistant, Creative and Self-motivating Project (AI5002), GIST AI Graduate School
Oct. 2023 – Nov. 2023: Research Intern, Ninetail AI
June 2022 – Dec. 2022: Startup Team Member, UlagBulag Village
Mar. 2021 – June 2021: Teaching Assistant, Computer Systems Theory and Laboratory (EC3102), GIST College
Mar. 2018 – Aug. 2018: Contract Software Developer, T.A. Think

Honors

4th Place, DeepRacer Track, 2020 Dream-AI Competition, GIST Institute for AI (GIAI)
Academic Excellence Scholarship (Awarded 7 times, 2017-2020), Kyungil University

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