WOO SEONG SHIM

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Dr. Woo-Seong SHIM is a principal researcher of maritime safety research by ICT technology at the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering, Republic of Korea. He received his B.S and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronic Engineering, Chung-Nam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, in 1997 and 2017, respectively. In his 24 years career, including the technical surveyor of ship electrical engineering at Korean Register from 2005 to 2011, he has focused on developing maritime ICT systems such as ECDIS with ENC development, AIS, and communication infrastructure for e-Navigation. He was a project manager of LTE-Maritime to develop the world-first high-speed maritime communication based on LTE technology on the coastal water of Korea within 100km in maximum. He is interested in developing a High-Bandwidth Maritime Mobile Service to provide enough communication channels for maritime use cases such as e-Navigation implementation and the ship-to-ship channel of the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship in the remit of on-going research project.

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