Professor Seong-Lyun Kim’s Activities at IEEE Globecom 2025

[December 8–12, 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan]

• GLOBECOM Open RAN Summit Panel III: AI-RAN: Opportunities and Challenges for Industry and Academia

  • Panelists: Jihong Park (Moderator, SUTD), Jinsung Choi (Softbank & AI RAN Alliance), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University), Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University), and Tao Chen (O-RAN ALLIANCE).

  • Key Discussions: Closing the simulation-to-reality gap, applying the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) framework, and the value of AI-RAN testbeds and RAN digital twin environments.

• 6G-ARROW Workshop (WS-28: AI Native Communications Systems)

  • Leadership: Served as a Technical Program Chair for the workshop.

  • Keynote Speech: Delivered Keynote 1 titled "AI vRAN Research at Yonsei".

  • Paper Presentation: Co-authored and presented the paper "Vector Quantization-Based Opportunistic Semantic Communication for Object Detection".

  • 6GARROW Demo: Illustrated project results regarding the integration of AI and Semantic communication capabilities into future 6G systems.

  • Panel Moderation: Co-moderated the workshop's concluding panel discussion on "Exploiting AI/ML enabled wireless communications while meeting sustainability objectives".