Kim Choong-Ki Scholarship Ceremony

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Scholarship is given to graduate students with outstanding research accomplishments based on the Research Performance Evaluation System(RPES).

Best award (4 students)
1st year: Park Ki-Woong (Advisor: Park Kyu-Ho)
2nd year: Han Jin-Woo (Advisor: Choi Yang-Kyu)
3rd year: Moon Sil-Goo (Advisor: Lee Chang-Hee)
4th year: Jang Hyo-Young (Advisor: Bien Zeungnam)

Outstanding award (101 students)

Prize awarded in the design contest of the International Semiconductor Symposium

2008.02.10 우정호,김동현 1

KAIST researchers have been awarded in the international semiconductor symposium for developing processors for 3D graphics in mobile devices and high performance real time visual process in robots.

KAIST electrical engineering and computer science professor, Yoo Hoi-Jun (47), on the 10th, announced that Ph.D candidate Woo Chung-Ho received the outstanding design prize in the 2007 Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC) for low power 3D graphics accelerator, which is programmable for high performance 3D graphics in mobile devices.

In addition, from the same laboratory, Kim Dong-Hyun received the outstanding design prize in the 2008 DAC/ISSCC student design contest for developing a real time visual processor in robots to rapidly identify moving objects.

Woo and Kim, for 4 days from the 4th have been invited to the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2008), held at the Marriot Hotel in San-Francisco, USA, to demonstrate the developed processors in front of semiconductor professionals.

What Woo and Kim has developed are low power programmable 3D graphics accelerators for mobile devices, and are expected to be used in cellular phones and PMP to realize high performance 3D graphic games, etc.

Realizing high quality 3D graphics in mobile devices like in PCs require programmable 3D graphic accelerators, but have been difficult due to high power consumption and limited silicon area.

However, the researchers succeeded in developing a new architecture, capable of realizing 3D graphics in mobile devices as in PCs, which reduces the silicon area and power consumption by 35% and 28%, respectively, while improving the graphics performance by a multiple of 2.1.

Same laboratory Kim Dong-Hyun, developed a high performance object identifying chip for real time intelligent robots, with twice the processing speed with highly reduced power consumption.

Object identifying in intelligent robots is essential for standalone navigation, distinguishing enemy robots, or automotive safety devices, but has had problems using high performance processors due to high power consumption.

However, Kim has integrated the rapid visual data process that comes in the camera, with the function to compare the object in the saved data, in one chip and reduced the power consumption by one tenth, while improving twice the processing speed.

Prof. Yoo said, “Not only did we finish in developing the chip, but have proven its performance in intelligent robots,” and “This system processes visual data rapidly and quickly compares it with the saved data in identifying the object.”

Ph.D candidate, Kim Chong-Eun receives outstanding paper award

2008.02.28 우수논문상2(문건우)축소 2

Kim Chong-Eun (Ph.D candidate, advisor: Moon Gun-Woo) received the outstanding paper award. (2008.2)

Title: Voltage Doubler Rectified Boost-integrated Half Bridge (VDRBHB) Converter for Digital Car Audio Amplifiers

Lee Hyang-Mee won The Award of This Month's Staff.

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Lee Hyang-Mee won The Award of This Month’s Staff for the first quarter of this year.

Best Designed Exhibition at Korea HCI 2008

2008.02.10 건강모니터링 옷(유회준)

‘E^2motton’ made by Hwang, Woo-Min, Park, Ki-Woong, Yu, Jong-Woon and Park, Seong-Gyu(Advisor Prof. Park, Kyu-Ho) was selected as Best Designed Exhibition at Korea HCI 2008.

Award of an anniversary of the opening of an institute in 2008

– 10 years’ service award: Prof. Cho, Dong-Ho and Prof. Yoo, Hoi-Jun.
– 20 years’ service award: Prof. Ra, Jong-Beom and Prof. Kim, Jong-Hwan. Staff Seok, Yong-Won.
– 30 years’ service award: Prof. Bien, zeung-Nam and Prof. Shin, Sang-Yung.
– Best research award : Prof. Kim Joung-Ho.
– Research award : Prof. Myung, Noh-Hoon.
– Best lecture award : Prof. Cho, Seong-Hwan and Prof. Chung, Sae-Young.

The winners of The 14th Samsung Human-Tech Thesis award.

We (our department) got ‘the prize of the department submitting the most theses’ as well as ‘the prize of the department bearing the most winners’.
The winners are as follows.

– Gold Medal
1. Kim Jae-Min(Advisor Prof. Kim, Joung-Ho)

– Silver Medal
1. Choi, Bu-Lim(Advisor Prof. Ra, Jong-Beom)
2. Lee, Min-Cheol, Kwack, Tae-Woo(Advisor Prof. Cho, Gyu-Hyeong)
3. Cheon, Jung-Ho(Advisor Prof. Chong, Song)
4. Kim, Yong-Deok(Advisor Prof. Kim Jong-Hwan)
5. Lee, Jeong-eon(Advisor Prof. Yoon, Jun-Bo)

– Bronze Medal
1. Lee, Gwang-Chan, Chae, Chang-Seok(Advisor Prof. Cho, Gyu-Hyeong)
2. Ku, Bon-Sang, Ahn, Jae-Hyuck(Advisor Prof. Choi, Yang-Kyu)

– Encouraging Medal
1. Kim, Sang-Gyun(Advisor Prof. Yoo, Chang-Dong)
2. Hwang, Young-Bae(Advisor Prof. Kweon, In-So)

Best Teaching Assistant Award (Fall semester, 2007)

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Lee, Jae-won(Advisor Prof. Cho, Seong-Hwan)

Best Lecture Award (Fall semester, 2007)

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Prof.Yoo,Seunghyup

IDW'07 Outstanding Poster Paper Award

2007.12.07 IDW07 수상(문건우랩) 3

Cho, Dae-Yeon, Oh, Won-Sik and Jo, Kyu-Min(Advisor prof. Moon, Gun-Woo) won the Outstanding Poster Paper Award at IDW’07(The 14th International Display Workshops).
-Title of paper : Optimized Dimming Algorithm for X-Y Channel Driving LED Backlight System in LCD TVs