Jaewon Kang
 


Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science

Rutgers University
110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854

Now at Telcordia Technologies (formerly, Bellcore Lab.) in New Jersey
jkang A*T telcordia.com

 

Bio

     Jaewon Kang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, working with Prof. Badri Nath in the DATAMAN Lab and Prof. Yanyong Zhang in the WINLAB.

    Before entering into the Ph.D program at Rutgers in 2000, he joined LG Electronics, working in the CDMA Smartphone Laboratory for the development of embedded operating system, wireless TCP/IP suite, CDMA data services for CDMA smart phones. He also worked in the IBM PSP Division, Austin, TX, involved in the international joint project for developing IBM Embedded Microkernel (EMK) from 1994 to 1995.

    He is a recipient of Seoul National University Scholarship ('93), LG Electronics Industry Academic Liaison Scholarship ('90-'94), ILJU Foundation Scholarship ('99-'03), DIMACS Graduate Student Awards ('04), Rutgers Conference Travel Award ('04) and Rutgers University TAship ('00,'04-'05) & GAship ('00-'04,'05-'06). He also received the IBM award from the IBM PSP Division for the contributions to the enhancement of the IBM Microkernel in 1995.

    His current research interests include congestion control in wireless sensor network, energy-aware protocols for power-constrained wireless networks, VoIP over wireless packet networks, dynamic QoS controlling for multimedia traffic, and ubiquitous network access in mobile computing area.

    His CV is available here.

Education

Research

Professional Experience (for detail, click here)

  • Graduate Assistant, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ                                  (2000~present)
  • Research Staff, LG Information & Communication, Korea                      (1998~1999)
  • Associate Research Engineer, LG Electronics, Korea                              (1995~1998)
  • Alliance Research Engineer, IBM, Austin, Texas                                         (1994~1995)
  • Research Assistant, Seoul National Univ., Korea                                    (1992~1994)

Teaching Experience

Activities

  • LG Electronics Delegate of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP, now Open Mobile Alliance) Forum (1998~1999)
    • Served as a sole representative of LG Electronics in the WAP forum and was involved in the standardization process of the WAP protocol by participating in the numerous technical meetings.
  • Member of IEEE (2002~present)
  • President of Rutgers Subchapter of Korean Science Engineering Association (KSEA) NJ Chapter (2003~2005)
  • Web Designer and Administrator of the Praise Presbyterian Church (2002~present)
  • Reviewer of the following conferences/journals
    • ACM/IEEE MobiCom '04, ICPP '04, BASENETS '04, IEEE Globecom '04, ICDCS '05, IEEE ICC '06, IEEE ICNSC '06
    • IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing '04, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) '04, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems '05, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology '05, Kluwer Wireless Networks '05, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) '05, IEEE Communications Magazine '05, IEEE Pervasive Computing '05
       

Personal

  • Family Photos
    • I married Heejung Kim in 1996 and have two daughters named Rebecca and Ashley.
    • Recent photos
    • Here are my wedding photos.
    • more photos (over 800 photos)
       

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