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.
SNU announced on the 1st that it will hold an award ceremony for the ‘SNU Excellence in Research Award’. The ceremony will be broadcast in real time on the official SNU YouTube channel.
SNU College of Engineering (Dean Byoungho Lee) announced on the 16th that on Friday, December 10th, ECE Professor Kyomin Jung received the ‘2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award’. IEEE ICDM is the top conference in the field of data mining.
Byung-Ki Lee invented a process for the conversion and compression of analog signals into digital signals, and developed a technique for framing information for optical communication.
Sung-Roh Yoon the director of the 4th industrial revolution committee, emphasized that “It is time to become the ‘pink penguin’ of the global market by making bolder revolutions to alter the paradigm of the digital industry”.
On the 10th, during the ‘Korea Investment Festival (KIF) 2021’, SNU ECE Professor Byonghyo Shim said that it is premature to conclude that the 5G mobile communication business has failed. However, he emphasized the need for a ‘killer application’ to attract consumers.
On the 16th, former Minister of Science and ICT Kiyoung Choi(photo) said thus during the 11th Woodang Lecture held at SNU, emphasizing the research attitude of talented people in science and technology in preparation for the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
A worldwide war of semiconductors is in full swing. Korea, which has the world’s second and third best companies in the semiconductor industry will find it difficult to avoid this war. Korea’s major competitor in this war is Taiwan’s TSMC.