International College

1999. Completed PhD course, Computer Science at the Graduate School of Kyungpook National University

1996. Master's degree, Computer Go, Computer Science at the Graduate School of Kyungpook National University

1994. Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kyungpook National University

2017~Current. Founder of 13FGames

2016~Current. Assistant Professor, Division of Digital Contents, DongSeo University, Busan, South Korea

2000~2015. Game Programmer and Cofounder of KOG Co.

Online Games

2018. Fragmented Islands, Developed by 13FGames

2016. Ultimate Race, Developed by Kog, Serviced in Thailand.

2015. Aima, Developed by Kog, Servicing at Nexon

2014. Fighter's Club: Hero, Developed by Kog, Serviced at Nexon.

2007. Elsword, Developed by Kog, Servicing at Nexon, Worldwide.

2004. Wild Rally, Developed by Kog, Serviced at NetMarble Korea.

2004. BumperKing Zapper, Developed by Kog, Serviced at Nexon Korea.

2002. Tour Racing, Developed by Kog, Serviced at Provincial Office, KyungSangBukDo Korea.

Jintaek Seo, Internal Structures of the Unity Engine, DSU, Korea, 2020

Jintaek Seo, Using Unity Engine for VR Contents Development, DSU, Korea, 2018

Jintaek Seo, C for Game Developer 2dn Edition, Sungandang, Korea, 2018.

Jintaek Seo, Internal Structures of MFC, HanBit Media, 2005.

Jintaek Seo, C++ for Game Developer, MinPress, Korea, 2003.

Jintaek Seo, C for Game Developer, HongRung Publishing Company, Korea, 2000.

WonLee, Nakhoon Baek, Jintaek Seo, "Developing of Realtime Motion Engine for Game Development", Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency, 2003

Jintaek Seo, The Flexible Pattern Alignment Problem, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, 1999.

Jintaek Seo, Implementation of the Game Tree with Operational Efficiency, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers , 1995.

Jintaek Seo, Implementation of the Territory Evaluation in Computer Go by the Eye informatoin, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, 1995.

Kyungpook national University.

Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Vision,
Game Design & Development

2014 Dean, Division of Digital Content at Dongseo University.
2008 Vice Director, Ubiquitous Computer Graphics Application Regional Innovation Center(RIC).
1998 Senior Researcher, Daewoo Electronics Corp., Korea

- Dongseo University (Dongseo University Ph.D)

- Cryptography, Information Security / Network Security,
- Healthcare / Body Area Network / Sensor Network
- Maritime ICT

[JOURNAL]

1. Mohammed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Rui Fu, Ki-Hwan Kim, Young-Sil Lee, Ahmed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Hoon-Jae lee, “Tracking Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on the Kalman Filter Considering Uncertainty and Error Aware,” MDPI Electronics, vol. 10, no. 24, 9 December 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243067

2. Rui Fu, Mohammed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Ki-Hwan Kim, Young-Sil Lee, Ahmed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Hoon-Jae Lee, “Deep Learning-Based Drone Classification Using Radar Cross Section Signatures at mmWave Frequencies,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp.161431-161444, 27 September 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115805

3. Mohammed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Ahmed Abdulhakim Al-Absi, Rui Fu, Ki-Hwan Kim, Young-Sil Lee, Byung-Gook Lee, Sang-Gon Lee, and Hoon-Jae Lee, "Secure and Efficient High Throughput Medium Access Control for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network," MDPI Sensors, vol. 21, issue 14, 20 July 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21144935

4. Ki-Hwan Kim, Hoon-Jae Lee, and Young Sil Lee, “A Study of Sample Preprocessing Method for Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) Attack,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (JCTN), vol. 12, no. 5, pp.1443-1449, 2021.05.

5. C. M. Kim, K. H. Kim, Y. S. Lee, K. Y. Chung, R. C. Park, “Real-time Streaming Image based PP2LEA-CRNN Model for Facial Sentiment Analysis”, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp.199586-199602, 28 October 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3034319

6. H. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Y. S. Lee, “A Survey Analysis of Internet of Things Security Issues and Combined Service”, Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information (JKSCI), vol. 25, no. 8, pp.73-79, 2020.08.

7. D. H. Kim, H. W. Lee, Y. S. Lee, “The Collection System of Eye Movements for Psychological Disorder”, International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, vol. 24, issue 7, pp.2068-2075, 2020.03.

8. K. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Y. S. Lee, “Proposed image encryption method using PingPong256”, Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information (JKSCI), vol. 25, no. 1, pp.71-77, 2020.01.

9. Y. J. Kang, K. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Y. S. Lee, “Analysis of Data Encryption/Decryption vulnerability in U-Healthcare Environment”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 11, issues 05, pp.2478-2483, 2019.12.

10. K. Y. Chung, I. J. Jeong, Y. S. Lee, “Development of Digital Signage System for Remote Video Advertisement in OSGi Service Platform”, Journal of KICSP, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.232-237, 2019.12.

11. R. C. Park, Y. S, Lee, “An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Concepts, Consensus, Standardization, and Security threats”, Journal of KICSP, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.218-225, 2019.12.

12. Y. S. Lee, M. K. Moon, “Development of Image Projection and Voice Guidance System applying the Concept of CPTED (Crime Prevention through Environment Design)”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, vol. 8, issue. 8S2, pp:869-875, 2019.06.

13. D. H. Kim, Y. S. Lee, “Voice Commanding System of a Personal Computer for People with Disabilities”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, vol. 8, issue. 8S2, pp:869-875, 2019.06.

14. K. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Y. S. Lee, T. Y. Kim, “Research trends on Biometric information change and emotion classification in relation to various external stimulus”, Journal of KICSP, vol.201, no. 1, pp:24-30, 2019.03.

15. Y. J. Kang, Y. S. Lee, H. J. Lee, T. Y. Kim, “Design of Public key based Mutual Authentication Protocol for Public Facility management”, International Journal of Information, vol. 21, no. 1, pp-33-40, 2018.01.

16. B. Ndibanje, Y. S. Lee, W. T. Jang, H. J. Lee, “Next Generation Encryption of Enhanced Light-weight Stream cipher for Communication System”, Asia-pacific Proceedings of Applied Science and Engineering for Better Human Lift, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017.03.

[BOOK]

H.H. Kim, H.J. Lee, Y.S. Lee, Y.J. Kang, K.H. Kim, Digital forensics practice using FTK and EnCase, Yundu Edition, Korea, 2021.06. ISBN 9791188831760

Y.S. Lee, T.Y. Kim, “Python Programming”, 2017.08. ISBN 9791187555070

Yonsei University (A Master of Engineering in Electronics Engineering)
Yonsei University (Yonsei University Ph.D)

Image Processing / Computer Engineering

Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad (BS Electrical Engineering (Sep 2014 – Aug 2018))
Kyungpook National University, Korea (Masters Combined Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (Sep 2019 – Feb 2025))

- Vehicle-to-Everything Communications (V2X)
- 3GPP C-V2X / NR-V2X Standards
- Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning
- Resource Allocation
- Non-Terrestrial Networks

- Enhancements of 3GPP NR-V2X Resource Allocation Protocols
- Cooperative Resource Scheduling in 5G Beyond NR-V2X
- Experimental Evaluation of 5G Cognitive Cells Deployment using SDR
- High Altitude Platform (HAP-UAV) for Provision of Backhaul Communication

1) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Federated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in NR-V2X Mode 2”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, July 2025.
2) Mahnoor Ajmal, Seri Park, Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, and Dongkyun Kim, “Content-Aware AP Selection with LSTM-enabled Proactive Caching in Cell-Free
Massive MIMO Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, June 2025.
3) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Twin Delayed DDPG (TD3)-based Edge Server Selection for 5G-Enabled Industrial and C-ITS Applications”, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, February 2025.
4) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Knowledge-Empowered Distributed Learning Platform in Internet of Unmanned Aerial Agents to Support NR-V2X Communication”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, January 2025.
5) Ayesha Siddiqa, Junho Seo, Malik Muhammad Saad, and Dongkyun Kim, “Optimizing Spectral Efficiency: An SNV Scheme for IoT-Enabled CF mMIMO Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, January 2025.cc
6) Mahnoor Ajmal, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Malik Muhammad Saad, Sunghyun Kim and Dongkyun Kim, Scalable Cell-free Massive MIMO Networks Using Resource-Optimized Backhaul and PSO-driven Fronthaul Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, January 2025.
7) Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Yalew Zelalem Jembre, Malik Muhammad Saad, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, “Proactive Content Retrieval Based on Value of Popularity in Content-centric Internet of Vehicles”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, August 2024.
8) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Edge Discovery within the 3GPP Framework for C-ITS”, ICUFN 2024, Hungary, Budapest, July 2024.
9) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Non-Terrestrial Networks: An Overview of 3GPP Release 17 & 18”, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2024
10) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Analytical Models for Distributed Resource Allocation in NR-V2X Mode 2”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023.
11) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Piggybacked based collaborative resource selection in C-V2X”, ICTA 2023, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, December 2023.
12) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “Age-of-Information Aware Intelligent MAC for Congestion Control in NR-V2X”, ICUFN 2023, France, Paris, July 2023.
13) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., “An overview of 3GPP Release 17 & 18 Advancements in the Context of V2X Technology”, ICAIIC 2023, Bali, January 2023.
14) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., "Cooperative Vehicular Networks: An Optimal Stopping and Machine Learning Approach", Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering, October 2022.
15) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al., "Dynamic positioning of UAVs to improve network coverage in VANETs", Vehicular Communications, Volume 36, August 2022.
16) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al. "Advancements in Vehicular Communications Technologies: C-V2X and NR-V2X Comparison."  IEEE Communications Magazine, August 2021.
17) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al. "Air‐interface virtualization using filter bank multicarrier and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing configurations." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2020): e4154.
18) Saad, Malik Muhammad, et al. "Collaborative Multi-Agent Resource Allocation in C-V2X Mode 4," 2021 Twelfth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2021.

[ Book Chapter ]
1. Malik Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, and Dongkyun Kim, Elevating Connectivity: Integrating Satellite Access Networks in 3GPP NTN Vision, in the book on "Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks", Springer Nature, September 2024 (ISBN 9783031637049).
2. Malik Muhammad Saad, Rutvij H. Jhaveri, and Dongkyun Kim, AI-enabled Dynamic Resource Scheduling in Integrated TN-NTN Systems, in the book on "Artificial Intelligence for Integrated and Non-Terrestrial Networks", Springer Nature, Accepted, July 2025.
3. Malik Muhammad Saad, Idris A. Abdulhameed, and Dongkyun Kim, Achieving the Sustainability in IoT Network using Software Defined Radios and Virtualization, in the book on "Design and Analysis of Green and Sustainable IoT Technologies for Future Wireless Communications", Elsevier, Accepted, August 2025.

- Resource Allocation Method Based on Context Awareness and System Supporting The Same (10-2025-0006853)
- AI-Enabled Onboard Unit for Adaptive Resource Scheduling in NR-V2X Systems