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The Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center (Director: Prof. Jong Ho Lee (S)) celebrated its 30th anniversary in the ISRC Doyeon Hall at 10:30 in the morning on October 29th. Professor Kiyoung Choi received the Doyeon-Changjo Award(375g gold medal) from Emeritus Professor Jong Duk Lee.

Studying abroad at Stanford triggered SNU ECE Professor Sang Kyun Cha to open up to innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Here, he acquired his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering.

In the recent interview with the Asia Business Daily, professor Cha thought that the government’s invitation as a lecturer was part of the government’s effort to ‘start realizing’.

Prof. Seongsoo Hong(55, picture) pointed out during an interview with Kyeongin Ilbo that arrogance is what we should be most wary of in domestic research related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Oh-hyun Kwon, CEO of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, was nominated as the ‘Distinguished Alumni of SNU’.

SNU college of engineering held the ‘2018 Shinyang Engineering Academic Award Ceremony’ at the Engineering House auditorium on campus on the 17th. 6 people received the award including, Yoonchan Jeong, professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Prof. Cha examined referenced examples of major innovations from the U.S., China, and Germany, which are arising as major players in the Fourth Industrial Revolution hegemonic competition.

The venture company AIRS Medical which started from Laboratory for Imaging Science and Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Jongho Lee B) applied Artificial Intelligence to MRI, reducing the scan time to less than a quarter of the existing solutions without degrading the image quality.

During the “Display Day” ceremony held at 6 P.M. on October 1st at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, Prof. Yongtaek Hong was recognized for his contribution to the advancement in flexible/elastic display technology and Korea’s display industry. The award commendation from the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy was handed to him by the minister.

Nobel prize in Physics of 2018 was awarded to two research areas that are acknowledged for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. Arthur Ashkin (Bell LaboratoriesResearcher, 96), who invented ‘optical tweezers’ and applied it to research in biology, is one of the winners.