Sungho Choi

Program Manager | Future Communications and Radio of the Ministry of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea

Dr. Sungho Choi is Ministry of Science of ICT Program manager for Telecommunication and Network. He is responsible for setting Korean government R&D Strategy and planning R&D projects on Telecommunications, Networks and Radio.

He had been the Head of the Standards Research Team at Samsung Electronics until March of 2019. His team covered standardization in Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Convergence Services, IoT and Regulations. Alongside standardization, he was spearheading a "Business Enabling based on Standardization" activity wherein he brought together insights and intelligence gathered from standardization and emerging industry trends to enable and initiated new technologies and businesses.

Dr. Choi has a wealth of experience in standardization of mobile communications including WCDMA, HSDPA, MBMS, HSUPA, LTE, IMS, I-WLAN, SAE, 5G and 6G. Since joining Samsung Electronics in 1999, he has been actively involved in 3GPP standardization as a head of Samsung 3GPP delegates. He has been also proactively working for expanding market and ecosystems by creating and operating, as one of founding members, multiple Standards Organizations such as UHD Alliance, Mopria (Mobile Printing) Alliance, as well as OIC (Open Interconnect Consortium) which is a predecessor of the OCF.

Dr. Choi received Ph.D degree in applied mathematics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1998.