CV

Curriculum Vitae of Seong-Joon Park

Contact Information

Name Seong-Joon Park
Professional Title Staff Engineer
Email joonpark2247@gmail.com

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    South Korea

    Staff Engineer
    Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    NAND Flash Controller Team, Memory Division, Device Solutions
    • Develop and optimize transformer-based forward error correction algorithms for NAND flash memory controllers.
  • 2024 - 2025

    Pohang, South Korea

    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, mentored by Prof. Yongjune Kim
    • Designed error-correcting codes for wireless communication and high-density, high-performance solid-state drives.

Research Interests

  • AI/ML-based decoders for error-correcting codes
  • Quantum error correction and quantum information theory
  • Channel coding for wireless communication and memory systems

Education

  • 2019 - 2024

    Seoul, South Korea

    Ph.D.
    Seoul National University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Supervisor: Prof. Jong-Seon No

  • Seoul, South Korea

    M.S.
    Seoul National University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 2014 - 2019

    Seoul, South Korea

    B.S.
    Sogang University
    Electronic Engineering

Peer Review

  • Scientific Reports
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
  • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2027)

Awards

  • 2024
    Best Paper Award
    34th Joint Conference on Communications and Information
  • 2024
    BK21 Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Korea Research Foundation

    Mar. 2024 – Feb. 2025

  • 2024
    Silver Prize
    30th HumanTech Paper Award, Samsung Electronics

    $10,000

  • 2023
    Excellence Award
    15th ICT Thesis Contest Grand Prize

    $3,000

  • 2021
    Ph.D. Scholarship
    Samsung Electronics

    Sep. 2021 – Feb. 2024

Projects

  • 2024 - 2025
    Advanced Channel Coding and Channel Estimation Technologies

    Wireless communication evolution project funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.

  • 2024 - 2025
    Channel Coding and Learning-Based Resource Optimization

    High-density and high-performance SSD project with Samsung Electronics.

  • 2022 - 2024
    High-Performance and High-Reliability DNA Memory

    Software and hardware development through the Pioneer Research Center Program.

  • 2021 - 2024
    Chip Interconnect Solutions

    Research project with Samsung Electronics.

  • 2020 - 2024
    Channel Coding for High-Density SSD

    Research project with Samsung Electronics.

  • 2019 - 2022
    Error Control Coding for DNA Storage

    Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center.

Skills

Programming: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MATLAB, C++
Research: Coding theory, information theory, channel coding, forward error correction, quantum error correction, quantum information theory, machine learning