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Merck Korea nominated Jae-Kyung Jung, professor at Hanyang University, and Jeong-Hun Kwak, professor at SNU for the Merck Award and the Young Scientist Award.

The research team led by Professor Kyo-Min Jung from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University (Ph.D. candidate Ju Sung-ho*, Ph.D. candidate Lee Kang-il*, master’s Candidate Min Kyung-min*, *: equal contributions) has been awarded the Best Paper Award in the Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge track of the 11th Dialogue System Technology Challenge (DSTC11).

Seoul National University's Superconductivity Applied Research Lab (Supervisor: Professor Seung-Yong Hahn) created and released a video on YouTube addressing the ongoing controversy surrounding LK-99. Released on August 3rd, the video systematically compares and analyzes the characteristics of the verified superconductor across three categories, based on the results presented in two LK 99 arXiv papers.

On the 16th, Seoul National University College of Engineering (Dean Yu-seok Hong) announced that a collaborative research team consisting of Prof. Sung-Jae Kim from the Dept. of ECE and Prof. Ho-Yeong Kim from the Dept. of ME has developed a new nanoelectrohydraulic method that concentrates low-concentration substances into high concentrations using fluid penetration due to hierarchical capillary phenomenon in multilayered paper channels.

Resurrecting Beloved Ones with 'Generative AI'... What are the problems to solve amidst the several challenges? In 2007, a fallen Air Force pilot was reunited with his mother. This was made possible by 'Generative AI' technology. The reunion of a mother and her son through the use of AI. The reunion touched the hearts of many. While AI technology may enable us to see the faces of missed ones, there are still many issues to address, such as issues regarding portrait rights and copyrights.

“LG’s large AI model, ‘EXAONE’, has advantages that language models such as ChatGPT do not possess.”

Professor Sung-Hoon Kwon’s research team designed a new fabrication process involving fluidic self-assembly. The work, which was the culmination of 5 years of micro-LED mass production research with LG Electronics, was published on the Nature journal.

Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Don Pederson Award in the semiconductor circuit field. He is the first from South Korea to receive the IEEE Technical Field Award in the field of semiconductor circuits.

SNU College of Engineering announced on the 12th that Professor Jo Dong-Il of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been inaugurated as the President of the IFAC for a three-year term (2023-2026) during the IFAC World Congress held in Yokohama, Japan on the 10th of July.

Korean researchers have developed a high-performance flexible thermoelectric device that operates on body heat alone, without the need for a battery. This device can be used to power wireless wearable electronic devices.