Email: krson@hufs.ac.kr, kyungraks@gmail.com, kyungraks@outlook.com
Phone: (031) 330-4281
Address: Department of Information Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), 81 Oedae-ro, Yongin 17035, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Office: Lab #425, Office #414, Engineering Building
Links: Scholar · ORCID
Biography
Kyungrak Son received the B.S. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 2014, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, in 2016 and 2021, respectively. From Sep. 2021 to Aug. 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. In 2019 and 2022, he was a visiting scholar at Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Currently, from Sep. 2023, he is an assistant professor at the Department of Information Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Yongin, South Korea. His research interests include wireless communications, coding/information theory, signal processing, and applications of discrete mathematics and abstract algebra in various information systems.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering — Mar. 2016 – Aug. 2021
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Advisor: Prof. Wan Choi
Thesis: Coded Multicasting and Coded Computing for Wireless Edge Processing
M.S. in Electrical Engineering — Mar. 2014 – Feb. 2016
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Advisor: Prof. Wan Choi
Thesis: Sliding Window Superposition Coding in Two-User MIMO Interference Channel
B.S. in Electrical Engineering — Feb. 2010 – Feb. 2014
Double major in Mathematical Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Experiences
| Position | Affiliation | Period | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board Member (이사) | Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) | Jan. 2026 – Present | |
| Department Chair | Dept. of Information Communications Engineering, HUFS | Feb. 2026 – Present | |
| Treasurer | 공대상조회, HUFS | Jan. 2025 – Dec. 2025 | |
| Visiting Scholar | Iowa State University, USA (Host: Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy) | Sep. 2019 – Dec. 2019; Aug. 2022 – Jan. 2023 | Distributed/quantum computing; representation theory, combinatorial design |
| Postdoctoral Researcher | Seoul National University, South Korea | Sep. 2021 – Aug. 2023 | |
| Research & Teaching Assistant | KAIST, South Korea | Mar. 2015 – Aug. 2021 | Participated in six projects; teaching assistant for six courses |