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“KEPCO is a goose that lays golden eggs. However, without modification in law it will only be left for display.” Seung Ill Moon (58), former director of Basic Electric Research Center (Professor of SNU, college of engineering, department of electrical and computer engineering, director of SNU Basic Electric Research Center) said the above during an interview with ‘Economy Chosun.’

The alumni association for electrical engineering held a scholarship award ceremony on April 19th, 2019, at the faculty meeting room of the department and La Cucina.

Jungsik Kim, who donated 50 billion won from his personal fortune last February for the development of Artificial Intelligence research in SNU, and who served as both CEO of Daeduck Electronics and chairman of Haedong Science and Cultural Foundation, passed away on April 11.

Amidst the rising interest in developing non-memory semiconductors, the commencement of a committee focusing on vehicle semiconductors, which is considered as a promising field in the future, is receiving attention.

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.