Myeongcheol Kwak Ph.D candidate Multimedia & Mobile Communication Lab., School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea Office: Building 138, Room 414 Phone: +82-2-880-9147 E-mail: mckwak [at] mmlab.snu.ac.kr

Education

• M.S. & Ph.D in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (Mar. 2012 - Current) (Advisors: Yanghee Choi, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon)
  
• B.S. in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea. (Mar. 2005 - Feb. 2012)

Publications

International Conference/Workshop

• "MASERATI: Mobile Adaptive Streaming based on Environmental and Contextual Information"
  Dookyoon Han, Jinyoung Han, Youngbin Im, Myungchul Kwak, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, and Yanghee Choi
  ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, Miami, Florida, USA, September 2013.
• "C-flow: An efficient content delivery framework with OpenFlow"
  Dukhyun Chang, Myungchul Kwak, Nakjung Choi, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon
  in Proc. of International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) 2014, Phuket, Thailand.
• "A Multi-pronged Approach for Indoor Positioning with WiFi, Magnetic and Cellular Signals"
  Byunghun Kim, Myungchul Kwak, Jeongkeun Lee, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon
  in Proc. of International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2014, Busan, Korea.
• "RAON: A Recursive Abstraction of SDN Control-Plane for Large-Scale Production Networks"
  Myungchul Kwak, Hyunwoo Lee, Jisoo Shin, Junho Suh, Taekyoung Kwon,
  in Proc. of International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) 2015, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
• "FRACTAL: A Framework for Recursive Abstraction of SDN Control-Plane for Large-Scale Production Networks"
  Myungchul Kwak, Junho Suh, Taekyoung Kwon,
  in Proc. of IEEE NetSoft 2015, London, UK.
• "A Tool for Checking Attendance of Students in Classroom Automatically"
  Myungchul Kwak, Junghwan Song, Selin Chun, Taekyoung Kwon, Seokho Chi
  in Proc. of 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition 2016, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• "An Automatic Attendance Checking System using Smartphones: An Infrastructureless Approach"
  Selin Chun, Myungchul Kwak, Minkyung Park, Taekyoung (Ted) Kwon
  in Proc. of International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2017, Sapporo, Japan. (Work-in-progress)
• "An Energy-efficient and Lightweight Indoor Localization System for Internet-of-Things (IoT) Environments"
  MyeongCheol Kwak, Youngmong Park, Junyoung Kim, Jinyoung Han, Taekyoung Kwon
  in Proc. of ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous (UbiComp) 2018, Singapore.
• "Leveraging Gyroscopes for Estimating Heading Directions of Smartphone Users"
  Myeongcheol Kwak, Minhyeok Kang, Taeheon Park, Taekyoung (Ted) Kwon
  in Proc. of International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2018, Nantes, France. (Work-in-progress)
• "Magnetic Field based Indoor Localization System: A Crowdsourcing Approach"
  Myeongcheol Kwak, Chorom Hamm, Soobin Park, Taekyoung (Ted) Kwon
  in Proc. of International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2019, Pisa, Italy.

International Journal

• "An Energy-efficient and Lightweight Indoor Localization System for Internet-of-Things (IoT) Environments"
  MyeongCheol Kwak, Youngmong Park, Junyoung Kim, Jinyoung Han, Taekyoung Kwon
  in PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 2, No. 1, March 2018, and this paper was also presented in Ubicomp 2018, Singapore.

Domestic (Korean) Journal

• "SFV: Scalable FlowVisor Platform for latency reduction and network virtualization,"
  Donghyun Kim, Munyoung Lee, Myungchul Kwak, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, and Yanghee Choi
  Journal of KIISE : Computing Practices and Letters, Vol.20, No.6, June 2014.

Domestic (Korean) Conference/Workshop

• "A Study on the Content popularity based Caching in Software Defined Networking"
  Myungchul Kwak, Dukhyun Chang, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, and Yanghee Choi
  Korea Information and Communication Society (KICS) Conference Summer 2013, Jeju Island, Korea, June. 2013.i
• "Scalable Flowvisor Platform for Network Virtualization"
  Donghyun Kim, Myungchul Kwak, Munyoung Lee, Donghyun Son, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, and Yanghee Choi
  in Proc.of KIISE Conference Fall 2013, Jeju Island, Korea, Nov. 2013.
• "An Accurate Wi-Fi based Indoor Localization Scheme Using Adaptive PLE"
  Jaedong Lee, Myungchul Kwak, Jinyoung Han, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon and Yanghee Choi, in Proc. of KICS Conference Fall 2013, Yonsei University, Korea, Nov. 2013.
• "An Efficient Geomagnetic Indoor Positioning Technique using Hidden Markov Model"
  Soobin Park, Myungchul Kwak, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon and Yanghee Choi, in Proc. of KICS Conference Fall 2018, Korea, Nov. 2018.

Project Experiences

• Fundamental Research on In-network Caching and Routing for Named-data Networking
  sponsored by Korea Communications Agency (KCA), 2012. 03. - 2013. 05.
• Inter-Networking Architecture for Future Networks (INAF)
  sponsored by Electronis and Telecommunications Research Institute, 2012. 09. - 2013. 02.
• Research on Indoor Positioning System based on the Sensor Convergence
  sponsored by Hubilon Co. Ltd., 2013. 05. - 2013. 10.
• Smart Reality Testbed
  sponsored by Samsung, 2013. 05. - 2013. 12.
• SmartFIRE : Enabling SDN Experimentation in Wireless Testbeds exploiting Future Internet Infrastructures in South Korea and Europe
  sponsored by MSIP, 2013. 11. - 2014. 05.
• A Research on WiFi Indoor Positioning System Leveraging the Crowdsourcing Approach
  sponsored by Hubilon Co., Ltd., 2014. 06. - 2015. 01.
• Research on Openflow based SDN Domain Network Abstraction & Federation Model
  sponsored by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, 2014. 07. - 2015. 01.
• An Indoor Localization and Navigation System with WiFi, Magnetic Field, and Bluetooth Low Energy
  sponsored by Microsoft Co., Ltd., 2014. 10. - 2015. 05.
• A Research on Positioning Algorithm in Indoor Space based on BLE and Magnetic Signal
  sponsored by SK Telecom Co., Ltd., 2016. 10. - 2016. 12.
• A Research on Indoor Positioning System Leveraging the Crowdsourcing Approach
  sponsored by Hubilon Co., Ltd., 2017. 07. - 2018. 01.
• Smartcampus: A Research on Localization Scheme based on Multiple Sensors
  sponsored by Samsung, 2015. 05. - 2018. 04.
• Smartcampus: A Research on Accurate Indoor Positioning Method based on MEMS Magnetometer
  sponsored by Samsung, 2018. 05. - Current.
• Versatile Network System Architecture for Multi-dimensional Diversity
  sponsored by Ministry of Science and ICT., 2017. 01. - Current.

Professional Activities

• Technical Secretary
  • Global IT Challenge Consultant at KSRPD, 2012
• Teaching Assistance
  • Logic Design (4190.201), Fall 2012.

Computer Related Skills

• Programming Language : C, C++, Java, Objective C, Python, JavaScript
• Tools: Important Tools (mspaint, mscalc, Hangeul, MS Office), SDN Related Tools (ovs, mininet, flowvisor, ODL, etc), Some Server Platforms (Node, Flask, Vert.x, etc.), Mobile Applications (Android, iOS)