CHESTER SUNGCHUNG PARK

(More detailed information can be provided upon your request: sungchung.park@gmail.com. You can also visit my research group: http://soclab.konkuk.ac.kr/.)


CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION
System-on-a-Chip Design Laboratory: http://soclab.konkuk.ac.kr
Electrnoics Engineering, Konkuk University
120 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-701, Republic of Korea
+82-2-450-0539 (office)

EDUCATION
Mar. 2002 to Feb. 2006 Doctor of Philosophy in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA
- Performance and complexity analysis of wireless communication systems for approaching channel capacity
Mar. 2000 to Feb. 2002 Master of Science in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA
- Design and implementation of prototype PHY/MAC layer system for low-power WPAN (IEEE802.15.4)
Mar. 1997 to Feb. 2000 Bachelor of Science in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA (Magna Cum Laude)

EXPERIENCE
Mar. 2013 to Present Electronics Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, KOREA.
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track)
- System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for digital signal processing in wireless/wireline communications
Nov. 2007 to Feb. 2013 Ericsson Research, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Senior Staff Engineer (Systems Engineer)
- Working on 3GPP standardization for LTE-Advanced (Rel-10/11) [RAN4 delegate/rapporteur]: Carrier Aggregation, UL MIMO.
- Working on eNodeB link/RRM algorithms for LTE-Advanced (Rel-11): Carrier Aggregation.
- Working on UE link/RRM algorithms for LTE-Advanced (Rel-11): Carrier Aggregation.
- Worked on UE digital calibration for 3GPP-LTE/LTE-Advanced radios: Carrier Aggregation.
- Worked on eNodeB link algorithms for LTE-Advanced (Rel-10): UL MIMO.
- Worked on 3GPP standardization for LTE-Advanced (Rel-10): UL MIMO.
- Worked on UE digital frontend for multiband, multimode radios.
Oct. 2006 to Oct. 2007 Samsung Electronics Inc., Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, KOREA
Senior Engineer
- Developed controller SoC for 4bit MLC flash memory [Team leader].
- Worked on digital signal processing for 4bit MLC flash memory.
- Worked on error correction codes for 4bit MLC flash memory.
- Worked on channel models for 4bit MLC flash memory.
Mar. 2006 to Sep. 2006 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Yongin, Gyeonggi, KOREA
Research Staff Member
- Worked on demodulation for Multiband-OFDM (IEEE 802.15.3a).
Jul. 2005 to Aug. 2005 University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Visiting Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Keshab K. Parhi)
- Worked on sphere decoding for MIMO-OFDM.
Feb. 2005 to May 2005 University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Visiting Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Heung-No Lee)
- Worked on system design for MIMO-OFDM (IEEE 802.11n).
Jul. 2003 to Jun. 2004 University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Visiting Researcher (Supervisor: Prof. Georgios B.Giannakis)
- Worked on MIMO transmission schemes, focusing on MIMO beamforming.
Mar. 2003 to Aug. 2005 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA
Research Assistant
- Worked on system design for MIMO-OFDM.
Mar. 2000 to Feb. 2003 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA
Research Assistant
- Worked on system design of ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4).

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
"Carrier aggregation for LTE-Advanced: design challenges of terminals",
Chester Sungchung Park, Lars Sundström, Anders Wallen and Ali Khayrallah, IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 76-84, Dec. 2013 .
"Dependence of power amplifer backoff on resource allocation for non-contiguous carrier aggregation",
Chester Sungchung Park,
Electronics Letters (to appear).
"Optimimum antenna combinining in the presence of transmitter leakage",
Chester Sungchung Park, submitted to IEEE Communications Letters.
"Digital compensation of IQ imbalance for dual-carrier double conversion receiver",
Chester Sungchung Park and Fitzgerald Sungkyung Park, IEICE Trans. on Commun., pp. 1612-1619, May, 2012.
"Towards an integrated circuit design of a compressed sampling wireless receiver"
Douglas Adams, Chester Park, Yonina Eldar and Boris Murmann, IEEE ICASSP, May 2012.
"On soft decision value calculation for linear dispersion codes with SC-FDMA",
Chester Sungchung Park and Fitzgerald Sungkyung Park, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., vol. 10, pp. 1378-1382, May 2011.
"Evolution of uplink MIMO for LTE-Advanced",
Chester Sungchung Park, Y. -P. Eric Wang, David Hammarwall and George Jongren, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 49, pp. 112-121, Feb. 2011.
"MIMO layer shifting for LTE-Advanced uplink",
Chester Sungchung Park, David Hammarwall and George Jongren, in IEEE VTC, Oct. 2010.
"Simple design of detector in the presence of frequency offset for IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPANs"
Daesik Park, Chester Sungchung Park and Kwyro Lee, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II-Express Briefs, vol. 56, pp. 330-334, April 2009.
"Probabilistic spherical detection and VLSI implementation for multiple-antenna systems",
Chester Sungchung Park, Keshab K. Parhi, and Sin-Chong Park, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Paper, vol. 56, pp. 685-698, Mar. 2009.
"CSI-aided demapping of dual-carrier modulation for multiband-OFDM",
Sungchung Park, Yun-Young Kim, Jae-Ho Noh and Jun-Jin Kong, in IEEE ISCAS, May 2007.
"Low-complexity frequency-offset insensitive detection for orthogonal modulation",
Sungchung Park, Daesik Park, Hyungchul Park and Kwyro Lee, Electronics Letters, vol. 41, pp. 1226-1227, Oct. 2005.
"An experimental coin-sized radio for extremely low power WPAN (IEEE802.15.4) application at 2.4GHz",
Pilsoon Choi, Hyungchul Park, Sohyeong Kim, Sungchung Park, Ilku Nam, Taewook Kim, Seokjong Park, Sangho Shin, Myungsoo Kim, Kyucheol Kang, Yeonwo Ku, Hyokjae Choi, Sook Min Park, Kwyro Lee, IEEE. J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, pp. 2258-2268, Dec. 2003.

PATENTS (SELECTED)
"Joint channel quality measurement", US Patent pending, Feb. 2012.
"Transmit power adjustment for relative phase discontinuity", US Patent pending, Nov. 2011.
"Iterative Blind Wideband Sampling", US Patent pending, Aug. 2011.
"Precoder selection assisted by DM-RS", US Patent pending, Nov. 2010.
"Digital IQ imbalance compensation for dual-carrier double conversion receiver", US Patents pending, Apr. 2010.
"Method and receiver for jointly decoding received communication signals using maximum likelihood detection", US Patents pending, Mar. 2009.
"System and method of single-carrier layer shifting for multiple-stream transmission facilitating SIC implementation", US Patents pending, Nov. 2008.
"Read level control of memory devices for higher reliability", Korean and US Patents pending, Sep. 2007.
"Generation of soft decision values for error correction with low-resolution analog-digital conversion", Korean and US Patents pending, Apr. 2007.
"Estimation of optimum read level of memory devices", Korean and US Patents pending, Apr. 2007.
"Read interleaving for memory devices", Korean and US Patents pending, Apr. 2007.
"Punctured convolutional codes for error correction of memory devices", Korean and US Patents pending, Oct. 2006. "Dual carrier modulation (DCM) demapper and DCM demapping method", Korean Patents acquired and US Patents pending, May 2006.
"Efficient compensation method for frequency offset", Korean Patents acquired and US Patents pending, Nov. 2004.

AWARDS
Finalists of the Student Paper Contest for a paper titled as "Probabilistic List Sphere Decoding for LDPC-coded MIMO-OFDM Systems" in ICASSP2006.
Frontier Research Awards for contribution to pioneering researches on error correction for high-density memory devices, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), 2006.

SKILLS
C/C++(experienced), MATLAB(experienced), SystemC(experienced)
VerilogHDL(experienced) and VHDL(intermediate)ModelSim/VCS(experienced), Design Compiler(experienced) and Apollo(basic)
Cadence Virtuoso(basic), Calibre(basic), SPICE(basic), ADS(basic)
Altera(experienced), ARM7/TMS320C6X(basic), PIC16C57(experienced)

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