Taejoon Kim, PhD

NSF (National Science Foundation)

• Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: R. Chou, UTA, V. Marojevic, MSU, D. Love, Purdue, S. Fahmy, Purdue), NSF Convergence Accelerator, Phase 2, "NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security", (ITE-2326898), Sep. 1, 2023 - Aug. 31, 2025.
• Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: M. Hashemi, KU, C. Brinton, Purdue, D. Love, Purdue, J. Krogmeier, Purdue) "Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-Design for Rural Connectivity and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementatio", (CNS-2212565), Oct. 1, 2022 - Sep. 30, 2025.
• Principal Investigator (Co-PI: D. Love, Purdue) "CNS Core: Small: Towards Scalable and Al-based Solutions for Beyond-5G Radio Access Networks", (CNS-2225577, 2225578), Jan. 1, 2023 - Dec. 31, 2025.
• Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: R. Chou, UTA, D. Love, Purdue, S. Fahmy, Purdue), NSF Convergence Accelerator, Phase 1, "NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security: Signaling and Full-Stack Approach", (ITE-2226447), July 15, 2022 - June 30, 2024.
• Co-Principal Investigator (PI: N. Shroff, OSU, Co-PIs: M. Hashemi, KU, E. Ekici, OSU), "Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Combating Latency and Dis-connectivity in MmWave networks: From Theory to Implementatio", (CNS-1955561), Oct. 1, 2020 - Sep. 31, 2024.
• Principal Investigator (PIs: S. Jayaweera (lead), NMU, C. Chritodoulou, NMU, G. Taylor, NMU), NSF Innovation Initiative Phase 1, "Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Planning: Spectrum-Agile Cognitive Communications for Terrestrial and Space Application", (AST-2037864), Aug. 15, 2020 - July 31, 2022.

DoD (Department of Defense)

• Principal Investigator (PIs: C. Brinton (lead), Purdue, D. Love, Purdue, M. Hashemi, KU), "Network-Aware Distributed Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion for Spectrum System Intelligence," ONR, Jan. 2022 - May 2025.
• Co-Principal Investigator (PI: E. Perrins, KU), "Space Time Coding for Multi-h CPM," National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), Nov. 2017 - Oct 2023.
• Principal Investigator (PIs: C. Brinton (lead), Purdue, D. Love, Purdue, M. Hashemi, KU), "Distributed Machine Learning and Sensor Fusion For Spectrum Sensing System Optimization," Navel Surface Warfare Center, Crane, July 2020 - Aug 2020.
• Principal Investigator, "Wideband Fast Spatial Spectrum Sensing Using Digital Beamforming," AFRL, May 2020 - May 2021.

NASA

• Co-Principal Investigator (PIs: M. Hashemi (lead), KU, E. Perrins, KU, M. Ewing, KU)), “Spectrum Management Framework for Unmanned Aerial Systems and Traffic Management in BVLOS: From Assessment to Modeling and Analysis”, NASA, Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2024.
• Principal Investigator, “An Active Learning Framework for Increasing Generalizability of Machine Learning Models”, NASA EPSCoR, July 2020 – June 2021.

Industrial Projects

• Principal Investigator (Co-PI: E. Perrins, KU), “Automatic Cell Planning”, Samsung Electronics Co., Aug. 2019 – July 2020