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KAIST EE Students were selected as winners of ”Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea (QIFK) 2020”.

It is noteworthy that out of a total of 23 awardees, 10 winners are from KAIST EE.

Paper submission was made in three fields: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous driving.

Congratulations again on your selection of Fellowships.

Congratulations to Professors Jun-Mo Kim, In-So Kweon, Jin-Woo Shin, and Eui-Jong Hwang who advised the students.

Name	Department	Advisor
Ji-Hoon Tack	KAIST EE	Jin-Woo Shin
Sang-Woo Mo	KAIST EE	Jin-Woo Shin
Jong-Heon Jeong	KAIST EE	Jin-Woo Shin
Yu-Ji Roh	KAIST EE	Eui-Jong Hwang
Jin-Sun Park	KAIST EE	In-So Kweon
Philipp Benz	KAIST EE	In-So Kweon
Chaoning Zhang	KAIST EE	In-So Kweon
Pan Fei	KAIST EE	In-So Kweon
Seok-Ju Lee	KAIST EE	In-So Kweon
Jang-Hyeon Lee	KAIST EE	Jun-Mo Kim

 

Our department’s professor Youngsoo Shin along with professor Jong-won Yu, Chang Dong Yoo, Jung-Yong Lee, Myoungsoo Jung, Song Min Kim, and Junil Choi have been rewarded the 2020 engineering school technology innovation award.

Each school selects and awards staff members for their contributions, and the engineering school has been awarding staff members who have greatly contributed to technology innovation and academic progress. Special awards are given to members for their development of world class technologies, significant academic achievements and industry-education cooperation.

This year’s award was given to a total of 28 members including one grand award, and 7 professors from our department have received the award.

A total of 3,100,000 KW will be given along with the award.

We congratulate the 7 professors for their achievements and contribution to KAIST.

Our department’s professor Dong Eui Chang was been awarded the Academy Innovation Prize from the 2020 KAIA.

The KAIA (Chair professor Yu) has held the 2020 award ceremony at the Seongnam-KAIST ICT center.

Our department’s professor Dong Eui Chang received the award for his contribution to autonomous drone flight technologies and mathematical interpretation of deep learning. Additionally, Ph.D candidate Xiaowei Xing from professor Chang’s lab was rewarded the fall conference poster award for programming toolbox research.

This ceremony was organized for the announcement of this year’s research achievements of domestic AI research and for the encouragement of all related researchers.

Once again, we congratulate professor Chang for his reward.

Our department’s professor Hyun Myung’s lab master candidate Eungchang Lee has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 8^th International Conference on RiTA (Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications) held at UK Cardiff from December 11 to 13.

Due to COVID-19, the conference was held online and 200 students from 10 countries attended the conference. Details are as below.

Conference name : International Conference on RiTA

Period : December 11-13 (virtual event)

Award : Best Paper Award

Author : Eungchang Lee (MS candidate), Duckyu Choi (MS candidate), Hyun Myung (PI)

Title : Peacock Exploration : A Lightweight Exploration for UAV using Control-Efficient Trajectory

Our department’s professor Joungho Kim’s lab Ph.D candidate Kyungjune Son has received the Best Student Paper Award from EDAPS.

Due to COVID-19, the conference was held online from December 14 to 16.

The EDAPS is an annually held IEEE international conference.

Details are as below.

Conference name : 2020 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and System

Period : December 14-16

Award : Best Student Paper Award

Author : Kyungjune Son, et al., Joungho Kim (PI)

Title : Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Interconnection Design for 3D W-Point Array Structure Considering Signal Integrity

KAIST ITRC Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor System Research Center (Center Director: Professor Joo-Young Kim) will be launched. It was newly selected as the 2020 university ICT research center project, and the project is managed by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) under the Ministry of Science and ICT. Professor Joo-Young Kim plans to lead the research project by 2025 with a total of 5 billion won in research funding with a goal of ‘Development of semiconductor system convergence innovation technology for a non-face-to-face/artificial intelligence society’.

The research center is located in Daejeon as a base research center, connecting Seoul, Daejeon, and Ulsan, and plans to conduct joint research with Yonsei University, Ewha Womans University, and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

The opening ceremony of the research center is scheduled to take place this Friday at 10:30 am. This opening ceremony will be held online to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Professor Hyun Myung of our faculty has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Korean Society of Robotics Special Award (KRI Award). The awards ceremony was held at the 2020 regular general meeting of the Korean Society of Robotics, held online on December 4th.

The KRI (KROS Robotics Innovation) Award was newly established by the Korean Robotics Society last year to encourage researchers who made innovative achievements in the field of robotics and achieve development in related fields. Professor Hyun Myung and Professor Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University were selected as the winners of the year. Professor Hyun Myung received the award because he contributed significantly to the development of robot technology by accomplishing innovative achievements in the field of robotics, such as autonomous navigation technology for robots in various environments such as ground, underwater, and underground, and technology for robots working in an extreme environment.

Especially this summer, the underground exploration robot (Mole-bot) developed by Professor Hyun Myung’s research team attracted the attention of leading domestic and international media. Click the link below to see the relevant research results published in the KAIST Biannual Engineering Research Webzine 2020 Fall issue.

M.S. student Eung-Chang Lee (Advised by Hyun Myung) won the Best Paper Award at the 2020 Fall IEMEK Conference of Embedded Systems and Applications.

The conference was held from November 12^th to 14^th at Grabel Hotel in Jeju Island. 15 oral presentations, 88 poster presentations, and 22 papers as invited sessions were presented at the conference. Among them, nine papers were selected for the Best Paper Award, including the paper from M.S. student Eung-Chang Lee.

The paper was recognized for its excellence by intensively organizing the contents of research conducted by the Mili-Tech Research Support Program for Research Officers for National Defense.

Details are as follows. Congratulations on the award.

 

Conference: 2020 Fall IEMEK Conference of Embedded Systems and Applications

Location: Grabel Hotel in Jeju Island

Date: November 12-14, 2020

Award: Best Paper Award

Authors: Eung-Chang Lee (M.S. student), Hyun-Jun Lim (Ph.D. student), Hyun Myung (Advisory Professor)

Paper Title: Development of UAV Object Position and 3D Mapping System Using RGB-D Camera in Unknown Environment where GNSS Is Not Available

This year, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award attracted 106 distinguished Ph.D. candidates from 36 leading research universities or institutions around the Asia Pacific Region to apply. As a result, only 12 extremely outstanding students have been awarded fellowships. This is the twenty-first year that Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) discover and support the outstanding PhD students majoring in Computer Science in the Asia-Pacific Region by giving this award.

Among them, Korean students occupy three seats. They are Sanghyun Woo from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), supervised by Prof. In So Kweon, Sanghoon Kang from KAIST, supervised by Prof. Hoi-Jun Yoo and Juheon Yi from Seoul National University, supervised by Prof. Youngki Lee.

The three students work on different research areas, but all of them have done impactful works. In the area of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Sanghyun Woo builds high-impact attention-augmented deep models for visual recognition and reasoning and accomplishes a series of work on self-supervised and simulated learning for model generalization. For example, his work CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) published in ECCV’18 has received 1000+ Google citations. His aims to build an AI agent that can think and learn like humans, with an ultimate goal to design and provide a general learning framework that can incubate various advanced future AI technologies. “With my research outcomes, I hope to become an influencer who can give a great positive impact on the world.” Sanghyun said.

Sanghoon Kang focus on On-Device AI and SW/HW Co-Design. He has made efficient hardware accelerator design for deep learning, especially energy-efficient design for mobile applications, with solid outcome (5 silicon chips over 4 years) with significant performance improvement. He also had good publications at top-tier conferences in the domain including ISSCC, S.VLSI, etc.. His research goal is to develop software & hardware approaches for energy-efficient AI computing, to enable edge devices with on-device training capabilities, to solve the dilemma that it is difficult to deploy AI applications to people’s everyday devices currently.

During the past twenty years, 429 outstanding students was awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship. Many of them have become influential researchers in their area. Predictably, this year’s winners will be the future backbone in the Korean computer science area. Let us look forward to their future achievements!

Congratulations on the outstanding performance of the research, and we also expect future academic outcomes.

[Link]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/articles/three-korean-phd-students-are-awarded-the-2020-microsoft-research-asia-fellowship-award/

Professor Joon-Woo Bae has been elected as a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) next year. In KAIST, a total of 9 members were elected as members of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) of the following year, and Professor Joon-Woo Bae of our faculty was proudly named.

The Korean Academy of Science and Technology announced on the 9th of this month that 34 researchers who have shown outstanding research achievements in the field of science and technology research were elected as members of Y-KAST next year.

Y-KAST was launched in 2017 as an academic organization in which young scientists under the age of 45 conduct political activities and overseas academic exchange projects. Among scientists living in Korea under the age of 43, researchers with outstanding academic achievements are selected as Y-KAST members. The next generation science and technology leaders with high potential to contribute to the development of science and technology in Korea are selected by evaluating the achievements accomplished as independent researchers in Korea after acquiring their doctoral degrees. The total number of members is 150, consisting of 8 members in policy fields, 45 members in science, 45 members in engineering, 22 members in agriculture and fisheries, and 30 members in medicine and pharmacy. The next-generation member’s term of office is three years starting from January of next year, and the member can serve consecutively until the age of 45 through examination.

Once again, congratulations on Professor Joon-Woo Bae for being a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST).