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Emeritus Professor Wook-Hyung Kwon (79, above photo), of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at SNU, was appointed as a new international member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States on the 10th.

Chairman Shim cited Democratic Party presidential candidate Jae-Myeong Lee’s policy to more than double the number of software(SW)-centered universities and support local universities as a base for fostering SW talent.

The research team consisting of SNU ECE Prof. Byonghyo Shim (corresponding author) and Samsung Electronics Researcher Hyoungju Ji (1st author, 2019 Ph.D. graduate of our dept.) was selected as the recipient of the Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE COMSOC.

SNU Professor Seung-Woo Seo was elected as the next president of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers(IEIE).

The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, an academic institute of science and technology, has announced on Dec. 1st that 33 young scientists under the age of 43 notable for outstanding research accomplishments in the field of science and technology have been chosen as members of the 2022 ‘Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology’.

He invented one of the digital conversion compression methods of analog signals and developed technology to frame information for optical communication.

The Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers announced that Professor Shim took office on the 1st of January and will lead the institute for one year.

The 3.1 Cultural Foundation announced on the 27th that they have selected Korea University Emeritus Professor Kyung-Ho Shim, Harvard University medical school professor Kwang-Soo Kim, Seoul National University professor Kyung-Mu Lee, and photographer Bon-Chang Koo as the recipients of the 63d 3.1 Culture Award.

During the 29th Korean Conference on Semiconductors, Ph.D. Seong-Yoon Woo (currently in Samsung Electronics, Advising professor: Jong-Ho Lee (S)) was awarded the best paper award (certificate and a plaque consisting of 37.5g of 24k gold)

Seung-Woo Seo (above photo), a professor at the SNU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is called the “godfather” of Korean autonomous vehicle research.