EE Ph.D. candidate Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito from Professor Minkyu Je’s Lab
Wins Corporate Special Award (Telechips) at the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Challenge
<(From left) Ph.D. candidate Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito>
Ph.D. candidate Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito from Professor Minkyu Je’s lab in EE was awarded the prestigious Corporate Special Award (Telechips) at the 25th Korea Semiconductor Design Challenge, held on October 24 at COEX, Seoul.
Organized by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, the Korea Semiconductor Design Challenge aims to cultivate the design capabilities of undergraduate and graduate students in the semiconductor field and to discover creative ideas that enhance the foundational competitiveness of the semiconductor industry.
<Edward Jongyoon Choi and Vincent Lukito at the awards ceremony>
The title of their award-winning research design is “Spike Sorting SoC with Delta-based Detection and Analog CIM-based Autoencoder Neural Network Feature Extraction Achieving 94.54% Accuracy,” in which both Ph.D. students participated.
The research was evaluated based on creativity, technical complexity, commercial viability, and completeness. Their project demonstrated outstanding merit in terms of innovative topics, high technical difficulty and excellence, potential for commercialization, and the completeness and validation of the work, receiving the Special Corporate Award (Telechips).