Inkyu Lee received the B.S. (Hons.) degree in control and instrumentation engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 2001, he was a Member of Technical Staff with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where he studied high-speed wireless system designs. From 2001 to 2002, he worked for Agere Systems (formerly Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill, NJ, USA, as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Since September 2002, he has been with Korea University, Seoul, where he is currently a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering. Also he is the head of BK21 center for humanware information technology. During 2009, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He has published over 130 papers in IEEE journals and has 30 U.S. patents granted or pending. His research interests include digital communications, signal processing, and coding techniques applied for next-generation wireless systems. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS from 2001 to 2011 and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2007 to 2011. In addition, he has been a Chief Guest Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS (Special Issue on 4G Wireless Systems) in 2006. He was a recipient of the IT Young Engineer Award at the IEEE/IEEK Joint Award in 2006 and of the Best Paper Award at APCC in 2006, IEEE VTC in 2009, and ISPACS in 2013. He was also a recipient of the Best Research Award from the Korea Information and Communications Society in 2011 and the Best Young Engineer Award from the National Academy of Engineering in Korea (NAEK) in 2013. He has been elected as a member of NAEK in 2015. He is an IEEE Fellow.