Professor Sung-Yool Choi was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Research at the 13th International Nanotech Symposium & Nano-Convergence Expo (NANO KOREA 2015).
Choi’s receipt of the award is in recognition of his research team’s development of transfer process and synthesis technique of graphene and 2-dimensional semiconductor devices, which is expected to open up the possibility of graphene commercialization.
The awards ceremony will be held on July 1st at NANO KOREA 2015, and will be reported in a number of press outlets on the same day.

Original upload date : 2015/06/26
Professor Kyoungsik Yu received this year’s Young IT Engineer Award that was co-hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), and sponsored by Haedong Science Culture Foundation in Korea.
This new received a wide coverage in Korean media outlets, such as ETNews and Yonhap News.

Original upload date : 2015/06/24
Professor Jinwoo Shin received the 2015 ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star Research Award.
Established in 2008, ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star Award is bestowed annually on a young scientist – within 7 years after receiving one’s Ph.D. degree – and it was given to Prof. Jinwoo Shin this year for his influential contributions to the theoretical analysis in the fields of stochastic queuing networks and graphical models.
More detailed information can be found in the links below.

Related Links: Official announcement / Past winners / Award talk
Original upload date : 2015/06/16
Professor Jinwoo Shim was selected as one of the recipients for the first-ever Bloomberg Scientific Research Award.
This award was given to Prof. Shim in recognition of his work on ‘Scalable Probabilistic Deep Learning’.

Do hwan Lee in Prof. Tae Seok Seo’s research group received the Best Paper Award Oral Session at the Korean Biochip Spring Conference 2015.

*Name of the Conference : Korean Biochip Spring Conference 2015
*Date : May 20, 2015 (Wed) ~ May 22, 2015 (Fri)
*Award Title : Best Paper Award Oral Session
*Paper Title: Valveless Direct LAMP-Immunochromatographic strip microdevice for detecting pathogen bacteria from whole blood sample
*Authors : Dohwan Lee, Yong Tae Kim, Hyun Young Heo, Tae Seok Seo
Original upload date : 2015/06/03
3 Ph.D. students in Prof. Joungho Kim’s research group – Yeonje Cho, Hongseok Kim, and Chiuk Song – were awarded the 2nd prize in student demo competition at IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference.
Their demonstration consisted of a WPT system, of which the efficiency was doubled with the use of meta-material of negative permeability.

*Name of the Conference : IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference 2015 (http://www.wptc2015.org)
*Date : May 13, 2015 ~ May 15, 2015
*Venue : Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
*Award Title : Student Demo Competition 2nd Prize Award
*Paper Title : ltra-thin Printed Circuit Board Metamaterial for High Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer
*Authors : Yeonje Cho, Hongseok Kim, Chiuk Song, Jinwook Song, Dong-Hyun Kim, and Joungho Kim

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Seung Ho Lee of Prof. Yong Man Ro’s research group received the Best Paper Award at the Korea Information Processing Society Spring Conference 2015.
*Name of the Conference : Korea Information Processing Society Spring Conference 2015
*Date : April 24, 2015 ~ April 25, 2015
*Venue : Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
*Award Title : Best Paper Award
*Paper Title : Action Unit Based Facial Features for Subject-independent Face Expression Recognition
*Authors : Seung Ho Lee, Hyung Il Kim, Sung Yeong Park, and Yong Man Ro
Original upload date : 2015/05/18
MyeongSeok Hyeon in Prof. Chan-Hyun Youn’s research group received the Best Paper Award at the Korea Information Processing Society Spring Conference 2015.
*Name of the Conference : Korea Information Processing Society Spring Conference 2015
*Date : April 24, 2015 ~ April 25, 2015
*Venue : Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
*Award Title : Best Paper Award
*Paper Title : Analysis of Network I/O Performance for Effective VM Control in Cloud CDN
*Authors : MyeongSeok Hyeon, Heejae Kim, and Chan-Hyun Youn

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Taehoon Kim of Professor Dan Keun Sung’s research group received the Best Paper Award at JCCI’15
JCCI(Joint Conference on Communications and Information) has been established for 25 years as of this year.
*Name of the Conference : Joint Conference on Communications and Information 2015
*Date : April 15, 2015 ~ April 17, 2015
*Award Title : Best Paper Award
*Paper Title : Prioritized Random Access Based on Preamble Transmission Power for M2M and H2H Communications
*Authors : Taehoon Kim, Kab Seok Ko, Yootaek Lee, and Dan Keun Sung

Original upload date : 2015/04/27
Do Hwan Lee from Professor Tae Seok Seo’s research team in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering received the Best Paper Award Poster Session at the 17th Korean MEMS Conference, organized by the Society of Micro and Nano Systems.
*Name of the Conference : 17th Korean MEMS Conference
*Date : April 2, 2015 ~ April 4, 2015
*Venue : Jeju Island, South Korea
*Award Title : Best Paper Award Poster Session
*Paper Title : A Valveless Direct PCR-CE Microdevice for Human Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat Genotyping using Human Whole Blood
*Authors : Do Hwan Lee, Yong Tae Kim, Hyun Young Heo, and Tae Seok Seo
Original upload date : 2015/04/27