Young-Jo Ko

Director of 6G Wireless Technology Research, Mobile Communication Research Division | ETRI

Dr. Young-Jo Ko received BS, MS and Ph. D. degrees in Physics from KAIST in 1992, 1994, and 1998, respectively. He joined Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in March, 1998 and has been working on mobile communications. He has also actively participated in the 3GPP standardization of LTE/LTE-Advanced. He is currently Director of 6G Wireless Technology Research Section in Mobile Communication Research Division at ETRI, and also serves as Chairman of the 6G Technology Committee of 6G Forum in Korea. His research interests include 5G New Radio and beyond, and 6G technologies, with main focus on the physical layer aspects of radio access.