Young-Han Nam

Young-Han Nam currently serves as a Senior Director at Standards and Mobility Innovation Team in Samsung Research America (SRA), where he leads 6G cellular communication system research. Before assuming this role, he was an Associate Vice President at Mavenir, overseeing O-RAN product R&D in the system engineering team from 2019 to 2022. His career at SRA also includes a tenure as a principal engineer until 2019, during which he led research and made contributions to the 3GPP RAN1 standards, focusing on areas such as mmWave, massive MIMO and 5G channel modeling. Notably, he acted as a rapporteur for the 3GPP study item on 5G channel modeling, responsible for editing 3GPP TR38.901. He received Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008, and MS and BS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in 2002 and 1998, respectively.