Research Overview

Research interests currently span multiple areas of electrical and electronic engineering. Through coursework and undergraduate research opportunities, different domains of the field continue to be explored with curiosity and a strong motivation to learn, while gaining experience with practical engineering systems.


Research Projects

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Supervisor: Dr Kyeong Soo Kim
Focused on improving node positioning accuracy in large-area sensing applications through a hybrid method combining ranging and signal fingerprinting. The project explores multiple two-way message exchanges, RSS-based localization, and beacon arrival time analysis, with validation on a LoRa experimental testbed.

Publications

25-28 Nov 2025
Published in: 2025 Thirteenth International Symposium on Computing and Networking Workshops (CANDARW)
Conference Location: Yamagata, Japan
Authors: Y. Zhou, X. Zhou, Z. Cheng, C. Lu, J. Chen, J. Pan, Y. Liu, S. Li, and K. S. Kim
Research output from the SURF project on GPS-free geolocation. This work investigates the impact of environmental factors on outdoor LoRa 2.4 GHz RF Time-of-Flight ranging for high-precision localization in WSN/IoT applications. Experimental data was collected across a 400 m2 outdoor grid, integrating temperature and humidity measurements with ranging records. Preliminary results using a deep neural network (DNN) demonstrate that environmental conditions significantly influence ranging accuracy, highlighting the need for compensation algorithms in GPS-free localization systems.