Prof. Donkyu Baek received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, in 2017. Since 2024, he has been an Associate Professor at the School of Semiconductor Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. From 2018 to 2019, he was a postdoc researcher with the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. His research interests include the optimization framework of electric vehicles, drones, and IoT systems.