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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.

In an interview with ChosunBiz on the 7th, SNU ECE Professor Sungroh Yoon said, “This year, conversational AI is the most noteworthy trend in AI technology,” and pointed out Google’s BERT as an example.

Min-Koo Han(SNU ECE Emeritus Professor), 9th president of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology(KAST) will be appointed in the morning of February 28th at the KAST Hall situated in Seongnam, Gyeonggi.

On February 26th 2019, the 2018 (73rd) Winter Graduation Ceremony for Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was held. 113 Bachelor’s degree, 47 Master’s degree, and 48 PhDs were conferred upon graduates.

Our department’s 2018 fall semester excellent lectures were selected as the following. Introduction to Compilers : Soo-Mook Moon / Analog Electronic Circuits: Jong-Ho Lee (S) / Digital Logic Design and Lab: Jangwoo Kim / Graduate Analog Integrated Circuits: Jaeha Kim

January 7th local time, at the Hyundai Motor booth in the ‘2019 Consumers Electronics Show(CDS)’ taking place in Las Vegas, U.S. As the front lights brighten up, people turned towards a lone robot on stage.

College of Engineering will open ‘Cyber Security and Blockchain’(CSB) course in the second semester of this year. The CSB course will be worth 3 credits and same as last year’s course ‘Introduction to IoT, AI, Big Data and Laboratory’, it will be available to non-major students.

Sungwon Kim, who is pursuing his PhD degree at SNU Department of ECE in the College of Engineering, is starting his internship in the upcoming summer at NVIDIA Applied Deep Learning Research situated in California, U.S.A.

We met Jongho Lee(53), director of SNU Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center (professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), at Seoul National University in the afternoon of January 8th.