He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Computer Engineering at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, in 2005, 2007, and 2012, respectively. He studied as a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Los Angeles from 2012 to 2014. He joined the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Chungbuk National University in 2014 and is currently working as an assistant professor. His research interests are in the areas of computer communication and networking. He is mainly interested in routing, multicasting, mobility management, location service, and QoS (Real-time and Reliability) in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), and Smart Grid.