Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University) at Keio University on November 24, 2026.
The rapid advancement of AI technologies is profoundly transforming the way we live, work, and interact with the world. While AI is enabling increasingly capable robots and humanoids, executing all AI functions locally on these devices remains challenging due to limited computational resources and power consumption. For efficient and intelligent robotic systems, integration of wireless connectivity and AI computation offloading to edge servers is essential. In this lecture, we present token-based communications and explore how token communications can facilitate collaboration among robots and humanoids. Real-world demonstrations will be presented to illustrate the potential and practical benefits of the proposed systems.
Byonghyo Shim (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in control and instrumentation engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the M.S. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign, IL, USA, in 2004 and 2005, respectively.
From 1997 to 2000, he was an Officer (First Lieutenant) and an Academic full-time Instructor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Korean Air Force Academy. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Staff Engineer with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. From 2007 to 2014, he was an Associate Professor with the School of Information and Communication, Korea University, Seoul. Since 2014, he has been with Seoul National University (SNU), where he is currently a Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Vice Dean of Engineering College.
His research interests include wireless communications, deep learning, and statistical signal processing. He was a recipient of the M. E. Van Valkenburg Research Award from the ECE Department, University of Illinois, in 2005, the Haedong Young Engineer Award from IEIE in 2010, the Irwin Jacobs Award from Qualcomm and KICS in 2016, the Shinyang Research Award from the Engineering College of SNU in 2017, the Okawa Foundation Research Award in 2020, the IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award in 2021, the JCN Best Paper Award in 2024, and the SNU Excellent Researcher Award in 2025. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, KICS Fellow, and Elected Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL), and Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).