Education

M.S & Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Texas at Austin (WNCG), Austin, TX, 2022 to Present

  • Advisor: Jeffrey G. Andrews, Hyeji Kim, Overall GPA : 4.00/4.00

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 2016 to 2022

  • Summa Cum Laude, Overall GPA: 3.89/4.00 (including 2 years of military service)

Seoul Science High School (SSHS), 2013 to 2015

Work Experience

NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA

Research Intern as Wireless Communication & Software Engineer, May 2025 to August 2025 (expected)

Keysight, Santa Rosa, CA

Research Intern as Wireless Communication & Machine Learning Engineer, May 2023 to July 2023

  • Extract 5G New Radio parameters from a signal generator and deploy the Deep Learning classification module.

Dudaji, Seoul, South Korea

Undergraduate Research Intern, June 2021 to June 2022

  • Object detection and image classification of components on PCB boards.


Publication

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Preprint

  • Taekyun Lee, Juseong Park, Hyeji Kim, and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “Generating High Dimensional User-Specific Wireless Channels using Diffusion Models,” Submitted, 2024. Paper Code

  • Heasung Kim, Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, Gustavo de Veciana, “Importance Sampling via Score-based Generative Models,” Submitted, 2025. Paper

  • Sungyoung Lee, Ziyi Wang, Seunggeun Kim, Taekyun Lee, David Z. Pan, “Self-Supervised Graph Contrastive Pretraining for Device-level Integrated Circuits,” Submitted, 2025. Paper

  • Eunsun Kim, Ian P. Roberts, Taekyun Lee, and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “Satellite Selection for In-Band Coexistence of Dense LEO Networks,” Submitted, 2025. Paper

Conference

  • Heasung Kim, Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, Gustavo de Veciana, Mohamed Amine Arfaoui, Asil Koc, Phil Pietraski, Guodong Zhang, and John Kaewell, “Generative Diffusion Model-based Compression of MIMO CSI,” In Proc. Int. Conf. Commun.(ICC), 2025. Paper

  • Taekyun Lee, Juseong Park, Hyeji Kim, and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “High Dimensional User-Specific Channel Generation for CSI Compression using Diffusion Models,” In 58th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst., Comput., 2024.

  • Taekyun Lee, Hyeji Kim, and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “Deep Learning-Based mmWave Beam Alignment with Only Pilot Channel Measurements,” In Proc. Int. Conf. Commun.(ICC), 2024. Paper

  • Taekyun Lee, Abhinav Mahadevan, Hyeji Kim, and Jeffrey G. Andrews, “Deep Learning-Based Autodetection of 5G NR mmWave Waveforms,” In Proc. Int. Conf. Commun.(ICC), 2024. Paper

Workshop

  • Taekyun Lee, “Importance Sampling in Digital Twin Networks”, IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, 2025.

Professional Activity

Reviewer for Reputed Journals / Conferences

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE) - 2024, 2025
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications (IEEE) - 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (IEEE) - 2023, 2024
  • IEEE Communications Letters (IEEE) - 2024, 2025

Talk

  • ECE Career Lecture for Students at Seoul Science High School, Seoul, South Korea, 2024
  • Talk regarding Resilient and Intelligent NextG Systems(RINGS) PI Meeting, Yorktown Heights, NY, 2024
  • Talk regarding Resilient and Intelligent NextG Systems(RINGS) PI Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, 2023


Scholarships and Honors

  • Kwanjeong International Educational Foundation Scholarship, 2022 -
  • Kwanjeong Domestic Educational Foundation Scholarship, 2020 - 2021
    • Awarded nationally to around 50 undergraduate students
  • SNU Engineering Honor Society, STEM

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant

  • Mathematical Foundations of Deep Neural Networks
    • Seoul National University, Fall 2021

Undergraduate Student Tutor

  • Introduction to data structures
    • Seoul National University, Fall 2021
  • Signals and Systems
    • Seoul National University, Winter 2020
  • Programming Methodology
    • Seoul National University, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
  • Physics 1, 2
    • Seoul National University, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2021