Three Ph.D. students from EE—Kyeongha Rho (advisor: Joon Son Chung), Seokjun Park (advisor: Jinseok Choi), and Juntaek Lim (advisor: Minsoo Rhu)—have been selected as recipients of the 2nd Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students.
Kyeongha Rho is conducting research on multimodal self-supervised learning, as well as multimodal perception and generation models. Seokjun Park is currently researching optimization techniques for low-power beamforming in satellite and multi-access systems for next-generation 6G wireless communications, as well as predictive beamforming utilizing artificial intelligence in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. Juntaek Lim focuses on developing high-performance, secure computing systems by integrating security across both hardware and software.
The Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students is a new initiative launched last year by the Korea Student Aid Foundation to foster world-class research talent in science and engineering. Final awardees receive a certificate of scholarship in the name of the President, along with financial support—KRW 1.5 million per month (KRW 18 million annually) for master’s students and KRW 2 million per month (KRW 24 million annually) for Ph.D. students.
This year’s selection process for the scholarship was highly competitive, with 2,355 applicants vying for 120 spots, resulting in a competition ratio of approximately 20:1.
