Awards

• William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking from the IEEE Communications Society, 2013 (Often known as the Nobel prize in Networking)

• National Scholarship from the Korea Research Foundation (Awarded USD 60,000), 2005.

• Windows 2003 Challenge Grand Prize Winner (World-wide competition, 900 submissions from over 75 countries) [Official web page in Microsoft , Award letter], 2004.

• Association of International Exchange (AIEJ) Scholarship, Japanese Government (Awarded entire Tuition & Stipend for 1 year), 1995.

Professional Services

• Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, Featured topic, Advanced Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks and Intelligent IoT, Feb. 2018.

• Advisory Committee Member: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) R&D National Development Plan, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea Government, 2013.

• Advisory Committee Member: Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, Ministry of Commerce Industry and Energy, Korea Government, 2013.

Selected Publications (Google Scholar Citation)

• [AWS Official Machine Learning Blog] Seongik Hong, Using DeepChem with Amazon SageMaker for virtual screening , 2020. [ Link]

• [Book Chapter] IPTV Delivery Networks: Next Generation Architectures for Live and Video-on-Demand Services
  CHAPTER 7: Delivering High-Definition IPTV Services over IP-Based Networks (Pages: 185-201),
  Seongik Hong, Wiley, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119397939 , 2018.

• Design of efficient molecular organic light-emitting diodes by a high-throughput virtual screening and experimental approach
  Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Jorge Aguilera-Iparraguirre, Timothy D. Hirzel, David Duvenaud, Dougal Maclaurin, Martin A. Blood-Forsythe, Hyun Sik Chae, Markus Einzinger, Dong-Gwang Ha, Tony Wu, Georgios Markopoulos, Soonok Jeon, Hosuk Kang, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Masaki Numata, Sunghan Kim, Wenliang Huang, Seongik Hong, Marc Baldo, Ryan P. Adams and Alan Aspuru-Guzik
  Nature Materials, 15, 1120-1127, 2016.
  (Impact factor in 2018: 46.863,
  312: Number of citations as of Apr 3, 2020, Google Scholar)

• On the Levy-walk Nature of Human Mobility
  Injong Rhee, Minsu Shin, Seongik Hong, Kyunghan Lee and Song Chong
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011.
  (1,282: Number of citations as of Apr 3, 2020, Google Scholar)

• SLAW: Self-Similar Least-Action Human Walk
  Kyunghan Lee, Seongik Hong, Seong Joon Kim, Injong Rhee and Song Chong
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011.
  (745: Number of citations as of Apr 3, 2020, Google Scholar)

• Method of Implementing Content-Centric Network (CCN) using IP-based network in Gateway
  Seongik Hong, BJ Lee and MW Jang
  US Patent 9,185,186, 2015.
  (155: Number of citations as of Apr 3, 2020, Google Scholar)