Prof. JongWon Kim

Research Area: 

Networked Intelligence (NetAI) focusing on "Sustainable Orchestration of AI-inspired Cyber-Physical Services employing Shared Software-Defined Infrastructure and Common Cloud-native Platforms".

• Composable Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) with SDN/NFV/Cloud integration for human-defined services & Agile and smart media-centric services employing heterogeneous SmartX nodes

• Resource-aware service composition framework (i.e., modeling, monitoring, and adaptation) employing heterogeneous C/N/S resources for service-centric Future Internet testbed.

• Composible provisioning and persistent visibility for programmable/virtualized resources, balanced resource/services orchestration for hyper-converged SmartX nodes.

• Flexible management of data-centric / cloud-native services lifecycle that interacts between AI-inspired services and C/N/S resources.

• Mobile edge & content-centric services that leverages opportunistic P2P for ultra-low-latency CPS (cyber physical systems) applications.

Others & Skills

• Advanced collaboration environment: Centralized coordination of distributed SmartX nodes for multi-party visual sharing, SMeet scalable and interactive collaboration framework, and Access Grid with networked tiled display.

• Flexible & immersive media service protocols & middleware: Flexible media-based service networking with UPnP middleware, Immersive and interactive media contents generation and delivery, Haptic-based multi-party interaction, and networked games & virtual environments.

• Resilient and synchronized media distribution: Synchronized/resilient (network-coded) multicast streaming, Prioritized packetization by layered RPI, Reliable and secure media distribution, and Distributed media streaming via P2P/overlay multicasting.

• Dynamic media delivery for graceful degradation: Dynamic network adaptation with layered prioritization, rate/flow control, source-network coordinated error control, and incorporation of IETF's TCP-friendly end-to-end congestion control.

• Universal media access with watermarking and encryption, Interactive media pre-/post-processing for object segmentation & motion estimation/interpolation.

• DevSecOps-automated Compute/networking/storage support for SDI (Software-Defined Infrastructure): SDN/NFV, cloud-native computing, and hyper-converged & composible infrastructure; Continuous integration, deployment, testing & operation: Open federated & service-centric testbed playgrounds.

• HPC/AI/HPDA toward data-centric computing: HPC/AI convergence, training & inferencing, and heterogeneous computing.

• Multimedia: Media networking, wireless/home networking, MPEG-4 & MPEG-21, MPEG-x/H.26x video, JPEG/JPEG-2000 image, transforms and filter banks.

• Computer systems, languages, and tools: Unix, Linux, X-windows; C/C++, Fortran, assembler, Perl, Java, and Python; NS2, Database, Matlab, and TeX.

Career

• Sep. 2019 - Present: Director of GIST AI Graduate School, Gwangju, Korea.

• Sep. 2019 - Present: Professor at Artificial Intelligence Graduate School, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea.

• April 2008 - Nov. 2019: Professor, School of Information and Communication, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Korea.

• April 2008 - Present: Director of SCENT (Super Computing CENTer), Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Korea.

• July 2012 - Dec. 2012: School Dean at School of Information & Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea.

• Sep. 2009 ~ Aug. 2010: Visiting Scholar at NCSU (North Carolina State University) Computer Science Department, Raleigh, NC, USA.

• June 2006 - August 2008: Department Chair, Department of Information and Communication, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Korea.

• Sep. 2001 - March 2008: Associate Professor, Department of Information and Communication, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Korea.

• July 2000 - June 2001: Technology Consultant for Southern California Division of InterVideo Inc., Torrance, CA. Performs guidance on the development of Internet-based broadband multimedia delivery via uni/multicast and wireless video over 3GPP/3GPP2.

• Dec. 1999 - July 2000: Technology Consultant for VProtect Systems Inc., San Marino, CA. Performs guidance on the development of Internet-based security video service.

• August 1997 - July 2001: Research Assistant Professor (from Dec/98), EE-Systems Department, Integrated Media Systems Center, Signal & Image Processing Institute of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. (Working with Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo)

• March 1994 - July 1999: Assistant Professor, KongJu National University, Electronics Eng., KongJu, Korea.

• 1994: PhD. Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

• 1989: MS. Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

• 1987: BS. Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.