Il Young Chong joined at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in 1980, and since 1996 he has served with professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Korea. He has taken the role of Dean of Engineering College and Vice-President of HUFS from 2006 to 2012. He received the Ph.D. of computer science from the University of Massachusetts, USA 1992.
He involved in research on communications service platform, service-oriented networking and IoT (Internet of Things) services. He is project leader of Korean Consortium for two ITEA3 EU projects, Web of Objects (WoO) and EmoSpaces (Enhanced Affective Wellbeing based on Emotion Technologies for adapting IoT spaces) since 2011. Since 2003 he has taken 8 editors to develop 5 ITU-T Recommendations and 3 draft Recommendations on NGN, IPTV, home network and IoT.
