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Dr Youngwook Ko

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr Youngwook Ko

Dr Youngwook Ko

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr. Ko received Ph.D. in 2006 and M.S. in 2002, in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA, and B.S.E. in Information and Communications Engineering from Hannam University, South Korea. After his Ph.D., he worked at Samsung as a senior engineer. In 2008, he returned to academia as a postdoctoral fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. He worked in the CCSR/5GiC, University of Surrey, UK, between 2010-2013 as a research fellow and then senior fellow. 

Since 2013, Dr. Ko is a Lecturer in Wireless Communications at the ECIT Institute at the Queen's University Belfast. He has authored or co-authored over 50 publications, mainly in highly ranked IEEE international journals and at peer-reviewed IEEE flagship conferences. Dr Ko is the recipient of several EPSRC grants (e.g., EPSRC First Grant Award). He is on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal on Physical Communications and acts as a member of the EPSRC Peer Review Associate College. Dr Ko has actively been involved in the technical programme committee for major international conferences (e.g., PIMRC2013-present, Globecom2017, VTC2013-present, EW2017). 

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  • y.ko@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9024 1772, +44 (0)28 9097 4777

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Open to PhD applications in the field of 

  • DEL PhD studentships: to cover tuition fees and a maintenance grant for three years.
  • If you are interested in his research to do the thesis as a PhD student, please email your resume in relation to communications and signal processing or related areas, as appropriate. He will get back to you if there are common research interests.

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Research students

PhD area Intelligent index modulation techniques for critical IoT systems 
Name Mr Thien V. Luong 
Years of study 2016 - Present
Country Vietnam

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area MCIK for next generation wireless communications 
Name Dr James Crawford 
Years of study 2014 - 2018
Country UK
PhD area Research engineer at Ericsson, Sweden
   
PhD area Multicarrier index keying for the next generation gigabit wireless communications system
Name Dr Eleftherios Chatziantoniou
Years of study 2015 - 2016
Country Greece
PhD area Wireless engineer at Ocado in Cambridge, UK

 


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