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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.

Daeduck Electronics CEO Jungsik Kim, who donated 50 billion won for the establishment of SNU AI(Artificial Intelligence) center, is currently hospitalized in a university hospital due to his old age.

The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 22nd that a total of 16 figures were selected for ‘2018 Persons of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology’.

With industry-academy collaboration with SNU ECE Professor Soo-Mook Moon for nine months, the company was reborn as a company professional in smart factory systems.

KAIST revealed on the 21st that its prof. Meeyong Cha prof. Kyomin Jung of Dept. of electrical and computer engineering co-developed a deep learning technique which can separate articles with irrelevant titles and implemented a click-bait headlines filtering model.

Thordrive(CEO Dongkyoung Gye), which successfully launched its autonomous driving delivery service recently in Silicon Valley, the United States, will run a trial service of its autonomous driving technology with Korea’s largest discount chain.

The significance comes from the fact that this technology is not simply an imitation of other techniques, but rather a novel control mechanism which overcomes the limitations of hardware and surpasses existing technologies in terms of performance.

On December 12th, 2018, officials of LG CNS visited our department to discuss matters of cooperation and donated a workstation to the research lab of professor Bohyung Han.

On December 21st, 2018, final projects of the course “Introduction to Intelligent Systems” were presented at the Ryu Hoi Jin Library. The department provided pizza for the students to share at the end of the day.