On September 23rd, the Hyundai Motor Group announced its plan to invest 2.4 trillion won to found an autonomous vehicle company in cooperation with the American company APTIV.
Samsung Electronics revealed on the 7th the nomination of 26 projects, including research on medicine for brain tumors, and advanced materials for semiconductors, which will be funded by the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation for the second half of this year.
Announcement of SNU College of Engineering 2019 Faculty Openings Submission Date: September 26 (Thurs.) ~ October 11 (Fri.) 13:00 https://eng.snu.ac.kr/node/17577
SNU ECE Professor Suhwan Kim was the first in the world to develop system semiconductors for high-performance digital MEMS microphones with built-in sound detection of high sensitivity.
The team of SNU Bundang Hospital Pediatrics (Neurology) Professors Hee Hwang and Hun-Min Kim and the team of Prof. Sungroh Yoon announced that they developed an algorithm that classifies sleep stages.
Professor Suhwan Kim from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of SNU said, “Technical cooperation between companies and universities should be further encouraged.
SNU College of Engineering revealed that the research team of prof. Sin-doo Lee from the Dept. of ECE developed a novel high-dimensional anti-counterfeiting technology and a secure storage media for optical information.
Professor Dong-il Cho was chosen as the president of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for the three years from 2023 to 2026 at the committee meeting held in Vienna, Austria on September 8th.