Expert in mobile communications, published 55 international theses and possesses 17 patents both domestic and abroad
[May 30, 2011]

 Professor Choi, Kwon-hyu (41, photo) of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering was recently appointed as a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), which is the world\'s largest organization specializing in electrics, electronics, telecommunications, and computers sectors.

 
 By being appointed as a senior member, Professor Choi was not only internationally recognized for his research achievements, but was also recognized for his qualifications to be active side-by-side with global scholars. He will participate in major panel meetings of the IEEE, while also being active as a recommendation and candidate screening committee member for new senior members.

 Senior members of the IEEE who have lifelong tenures are made up of IEEE members comprised of engineers, scientists and technology executives of companies having at least 10 years in specialized fields and are selected through strict screening processes for candidates with continuous and considerable achievements for at least five years. Five years or more achievements refer to IEEE international theses or international patents and one can only become a candidate with the recommendation of at least three IEEE fellows or senior members, making it very difficult to qualify. In result, IEEE senior members make up only 8% of the total members.

 Professor Choi published 55 international theses including the IEEE top journal (IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, IEEE CL, etc) in the mobile communications sector. He already registered 17 patents including six international patents through industry-academic projects with mobile communication businesses, and thus his academic contribution as well as practical research contribution was highly assessed.

 After receiving his PhD, Choi worked at the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute) broadband wireless communication research team for three years and then became a professor at the YU Department of Information and Communication Engineering in 2003. He is currently the supervisor of the \'BK21 Personnel Fostering Project\' and has led the highest ranking in performance in Korea for two straight years. In addition, he is focusing on teaching students in the mobile communications sector such as winning the \'JCCI award\', the highest award in the Korea Information and Communications Society together with his students in 2007.

 Meanwhile, the IEEE is a non-profit organization with over 360,000 technical experts from 175 countries around the world as members, and it is also called Eye-triple-E. The activities of IEEE span from communications, computer parts, medicine, physics and atomic physics, and an independent committee for groups of three fields pursues standardization of relevant technologies.