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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.

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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).

 

Our department’s professor Byung Jin Choi’s research team has developed a key technology for power efficiency of next generation semiconductor devices. The technology can coat a germanium wafer with an insulating film which can minimize current leak loss. Traditional FINFET and GAA fabrications can simultaneously reduce the price and increase the performance but slows down the electron-hole speeds due to small device dimensions. Professor Cho’s team has developed a technology which can overcome these obstacles.

Kihyoen Ahn from the KSIA mentioned that it is a key technology for overcoming the slowing down development of device minituarization.

Professor Cho’s team has been awarded the best paper award at the 26^th Korea Semiconductor Conference for the development.

The research was conducted under the Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, MOTIE supported ‘Future Semiconductor Device Technology Development Project’.

 

Our department’s professor Iickho Song has been selected as the KICS fellow as of December 4, 2020.

The KICS has been annually selecting fellow researchers for their contribution on information and communication technology. 1 researcher is selected for each of the research, industry leader, and service leader sector and professor Iickho Song has been selected for the research sector.

Professor Song has been conducting research on communications and signal processing for 33 years and has contributed in the development of Korean ICT worldwide. He has written many papers such as “Optimized Signal Detection for General Analysis Models” and has greatly contributed in the field of wireless communication. We once again congratulate Professor Song.

Our department’s professor Shinhyun Choi has been awarded the 30^th Haedong Young Engineer Award. The prize is organized by IEIE, President Hyesook Lim, Ehwa Woman’s University and supported by the Haedong Science Cultural Foundation. The awarding ceremony was held December 11^th 5:30 PM at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas Hotel.

The IEIE Haedong Award is divided into 3 parts which are academics, technologies, and young engineers. The young engineer award annually selects one person each from the industrial and science-technology sector under the age of 40 who have contributed to electronic and information communication.

Professor Shinhyun Choi has proposed a stable scheme for operation of next generation memory memristor devices and has also used it for performing high accuracy artificial neural network training.

Professor Joung-Ho Kim from our faculty will appear in EBS Class e to give lectures starting this afternoon. We ask for your interest and support. The subject of the lecture is ‘Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, and Digital Innovation’.

It will be broadcasted 13 times starting from today to the 30th, excluding weekends.

This lecture is intended to introduce key technologies and issues of the 4th industrial revolution at the general public level. In particular, the lecture explains digital transformation technologies expressed in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, intelligent semiconductors, 5G, etc., in an easy and fun way and introduces its impact to society, economy, and industry. Specifically, it discusses the new industries, jobs, and ethics issues that digital transformation technologies bring. Finally, it presents the conditions and education of talented people who will lead them.

 

Our department’s professor Changick Kim’s lab has been rewarded the best paper award for the IEIE 2020 fall conference. Master candidate In Yong Koo was awarded the prize as the main author. The conference was held last November 27 – 28^th at the Kimdaejung Convention Center, which was also held online too due to the COVID-19. Details are as below.

Conference name : IEIE 2020 Fall Conference

Date : 2020.11.27 – 2020.11.28

Award : Best paper award

Authors : In Yong Koo (Master candidate), Minki Jeong (Ph.D candidate), Changick Kim (PI)

Paper : Enhancement of Image Detection on Open Set of Rare Example Problems

Ph.D. student Young-Joon Yu (Advised by Yong-Man Ro) won the Best Paper Award at the 2020 Military Operations Research Society of Korea Conference. The academic conference was held online on September 24th.

Ph.D. student Young-Joon Yu presented a paper titled “A study on Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems based on Multimodal Deep Learning Robust against Adversarial Attacks“ and won the Best Paper Award.

 

Conference: 2020 Military Operations Research Society of Korea Conference

Date: 2020. 09. 24

Award: Best Paper Award

Authors: YoungJoon Yu (Ph.D. student), Hong-Joo Lee (Ph.D. student), Byeong-Hee Yang (Professor), Yong-Man Ro (Advisory Professor)

Paper Title: A study on Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems based on Multimodal Deep Learning Robust against Adversarial Attacks

Our department’s professor Hyunchul Shim’s lab has won the MSIT AI Grand Challenge Competition Control Intelligence Part for the 2^nd year in a row.

This year’s competition was based on how AI can solve various problems that will emerge from the AI based future. The challenge was to set an idea about how to use AI for responding to people’s life in various areas and social issues.

Composed of 4 major areas, professor Shim’s team applied to track 4, where a total of 5 teams applied. Professor Shim’s team used the idea of how to safely use drones to deliver supplies and goods to people.

Winning for the 2^nd year in a row, Professor Shim’s team used only 100% self developed technologies (accurate positioning, high speed flight control) for the competition. Winning the competition again this year, the group will be funded a total of 2.4 billion KW which is similar to the DARPA challenge award prize. Along with the development of AI, professor Shim said that his team will further develop inside drone flight, unmanned civilian aircraft, autonomous vehicles, delivery robots and other vehicle related AI technologies.

Once again we congratulate professor Shim’s team for the reward.

Our department’s professor Junil Choi’s lab has achieved the best and excellent paper award at the 12^th ICT paper competition. The 12^th ICT paper competition supported by Etnews, Webcash Group, and KSFC has awarded the best paper award to Ph.D candidates Hwanjin Kim (1^st author), Sucheol Kim, Hyeongtaek Lee and the excellent paper award Ph.D candidate In-soo Kim.

A total of 5,000,000 and 2,000,000 KW are rewarded to the best and excellent paper.

The ICT paper competition marking its 12^th anniversary this year evaluates and rewards various papers based on semiconductor, communications, AI, IoT and other ICT related fields. The competition is open for South Korean students attending domestic universities and graduates schools.

Additionally, the great award was achieved by Sanghoon Park from the Graduate school of Culture Technology.

Once again we congratulate professor Junil Choi and the students for the achievements.