About

Yonghoon Jeong is a lecturer in the Department of Cyber Science at the Republic of Korea Naval Academy, where he is completing his mandatory military service as an officer in the Republic of Korea Navy. Specializing in wireless communication systems and the physical layer of low-power wide-area networks, particularly LoRa, his research explores energy-efficient underwater communication systems designed to address limited bandwidth, long propagation delays, severe attenuation, Doppler effects, and highly variable channel conditions. His goal is to enable reliable, low-power connectivity for ocean sensing, climate monitoring, and underwater Internet-of-Things applications.

Experiences

Lecturer

2026 - Present
Republic of Korea Naval Academy, South Korea

Faculty Member, Department of Cyber Science, Republic of Korea Naval Academy
Officer (Ensign), Republic of Korea Navy (Mandatory Military Service through May 2029)

Researcher

2024 - 2026
Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea

Researcher

2023
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

Smart Manufacturing Application Laboratory

Research Intern

2022
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea

Education

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2024 - 2026
Seoul National University

Advisor: Prof. Saewoong Bahk (currently the President of ETRI)
Network Laboratory (NETLAB)

B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering

2018 - 2023
Kwangwoon University

Publications

  • On the Interference Resilience of Non-Linear Chirp Modulation for LoRa: An Analytical Insight into Energy Scattering Effect
  • Yonghoon Jeong, Youngwook Son, and Saewoong Bahk
    IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 30, pp. 2238-2242, Jun. 2026.
  • D²-PLC: Holistic Design and Implementation of High-Datarate Duplex DC Power Line Communication Network
  • Dongrack Choi, Yubin Choi, Yonghoon Jeong, Jeongyeup Paek, and Saewoong Bahk
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, pp. 45325-45340, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Demo: A Programmable High-Throughput Duplex DC-PLC Testbed for Power and Data Integration
  • Dongrack Choi, Yonghoon Jeong, Yubin Choi, and Saewoong Bahk
    IEEE ICNP 2025, Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 19-22, 2025.
  • Diffusion-Phys: Noise-Robust Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Videos via Diffusion Models
  • Yonghoon Jeong and Youngseok Choi
    Biomedical Engineering Letters, vol. 15, pp. 575–585, Apr, 2025.

    Technical Skills

    • Programming & Simulation
      • MATLAB, C, C++, Python, MATLAB/Simulink, ns-3
    • Frameworks & Libraries
      • ROS, ROS2, TensorFlow, PyTorch
    • Development Tools
      • Linux, Git, Docker
    • Technical Writing
      • LaTeX, Overleaf

    Awards / Scholarships

    Scholarship Recipient

    2022–2023
    Korea Scholarship Foundation for the Future Leaders (KOSFFL)

    Excellence Paper Awards

    2021
    Korea Computer Conference (KCC) 2021

    University President's Award

    2020
    Seoul Capstone Design, Seoul

    Scholarship Recipient

    2020
    Samsong Scholarship Foundation

    Dean's List

    2020
    Highest GPA