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It was announced on the 13th that researchers of KAIST and Seoul National University won the Google AI Focused Research Awards Program for the first time as a Korean. The award recipients are professor Sung Ju Hwang and Steven Whang of KAIST, and professors Bohyung Han and Wonyong Sung of SNU.

SNU and Samsung Electronics decided to expand the ‘SNU-SEC Semiconductor Special Education Program’, which was limited to Master’s and PhD students, to undergraduate students.

“This will be a block-chain research organization that will go beyond Korea to represent East Asia. In particular, we will not focus only on pure academic research but stay in close proximity to the industrial field and contribute to technological development in actual businesses.”

SNU ECE is planning to recruit two talented female faculty members from “all fields of electrical and computer engineering”(fields related to electricity, electronics, control, computer, etc.).

On the 7th of September, there was an orientation and talkfest for international students. In the presence of professors serving as administrators, the students were introduced to the department and were guided through related information on academic affairs.

Excellent Lecture of our department’s 2018 spring semester were selected as below and recognized during the department’s faculty meeting on September 3rd.

At the China ZhongAn Insurance Hackathon where around 40 teams participated, students from the laboratory of SNU professor Sang Kyun Cha won 2nd prize in the block chain track

During the interview on the 13th, electric power industry expert Seung Il Moon (57, past president of Korea Electrical Engineering and Science Research Institute), professor of SNU department of electrical and computer engineering, assertively said that this is an exaggerated concern.

SNU College of Engineering announced on the 19th that Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering will recruit two female professors from all fields including electricity, electronics, control, and computer.

Prof. Sunghoon Kwon was chosen as the 2018 award recipient of Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize, which is sponsored by Lab On a Chip journal and MicroTAS Conference.