AFCEA/USNI WEST 2026

Younghan Nam
Senior Director
Samsung Research America


Younghan Nam currently serves as a Senior Director at the Standards and Mobility Innovation Team in Samsung Research America (SRA), where he leads system research for 6G. Before assuming this role, he held the position of Associate Vice President at Mavenir, overseeing ORAN product R&D in the system engineering team until 2022. His career at SRA also includes a tenure as a principal engineer until 2018, 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. He has received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2008, and MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, in 2002 and 1998, respectively.

Sessions :