Recognized as a leader in innovating science technologies in the 21st century communication sector
[November 16, 2011]

 
 Professor Park, Yong-wan (51, photo) of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, won the Tesla Award from the IBC (International Biographical Centre) of Cambridge in England.

 This Tesla Award was named after Nikola Tesla and it is given to leaders of science-technology innovation in the communication sector of the 21st century.

 Professor Park, who has been with Yeungnam University since September 1996, studied at the Kyungpook National University Department of Electronic Engineering and its graduate school, and earned his master’s and doctorates at the State University of New York and did his post-doc at Caltech. He is the ‘first generation overseas student’ in the domestic mobile communication sector. After returning to Korea in 1994, he worked as the R&D section chief for the ‘3G’ mobile communications sector at SK Telecom until August 1996 and played an important role in pioneering Korea’s mobile communication industry.

 He is currently active as the DDG (Deputy Director General) for the IBC Asia region since 2009 and he is also the director of the Gyeongbuk Institute of IT Convergence Industry Technology since October 2009. In 2008 and 2009, he also served as the director of the Korea branch for the mobile communications sector of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), which is the world’s largest and most respected society in the electric and electronic fields.

 His major literary works include the 「Enhanced Radio Access Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Communication」, which is a guide for 4G mobile communication published by the global science publishing company ‘Springer’ in 2007. In 2005, he was also awarded the ‘Haedong Thesis Award’, which is given to the best thesis in the communications sector by the Korea Information and Communications Society.