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Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 3rd that 7 research laboratories from 4 universities including SNU, KAIST, DGIST, and Kyunghee University were chosen as this year’s ‘SW Star Lab’ Out of the seven laboratories, three are from KAIST, two from SNU, and one each from Kyunghee University and DGIST.

The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers(KSAE), founded in 1978, has 25,000 members. Most of the major domestic companies are corporate members.

On April 5th of 2019, the opening ceremony of the Alumni Mentoring Program was held at the Hoam Faculty Center.

Prior to the development of promising fields in IT such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and supercomputers, there is something in common that should be preceded.

SNU ECE Professor Sunghoon Kwon’s research team announced on the 6th that it developed a next-generation sequencing (NGS) error validation technology for accurate analysis of cancer cell DNA variants.

SNU Prof. Sang Kyun Cha developed a technology that could increase the speed of data processing by a maximum of ten thousand times in the 1990s.

The engineer who has studied autonomous vehicles for the longest period of time in Korea owns no car. SNU ECE Professor Seung Woo Seo(55), ‘the mentor for engineering students’, gets off at Nakseongdae subway station and walks about 40 minutes to get to his research laboratory for work.

Researchers in Korea developed a key technology with which it is possible to manufacture skin-attachable wearable devices that one can DIY tailor to one’s body.

Dong-Heon Yoo and Seungjae Lee, who are PhD students under Professor Byoungho Lee of ECE dept., won the runner-up prize at the Optical Design Challenge for AR/VR/MR, which was held from February 2nd until the 7th at the Moscone Center of San Francisco, United States.

During the department’s faculty meeting on March 4th, a plaque of appreciation was given to Professor Seong Cheol Kim, who returned to the department after serving for the past two years as Vice President for Research Affairs and Head of R&DB Foundation for the good of the university.