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Professor Yongtaek Hong was selected as the winner of Okawa Grant Award given by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications of Japan. He received the award at the ceremony that was held in Tokyo on November 7th.

SNU ECE professor Kiyoung Choi is explaining the neuromorphic semiconductor at the KIST Post-silicon Semiconductor Institute on the 23rd.

Dr. Seungwoo Lee, who received his PhD at SNU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Supervisor: Professor Sung June Kim), was appointed as an assistant professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School since November 1st, 2018.

According to SNU College of Engineering on the 21st of November, professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kyuseok Shim, was elected as a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, known as IEEE, a world-renowned organization.

Under the sponsorship from BK21 plus project, department of electrical and computer engineering of SNU participated in the booth presentation at the 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), which was held from July 17th to 21st in Hawaii, the United States.

On November 21st, 2018, executives and working level staffs of Google, including CEO John Lee, CEO Junsung Hong, and Manager Aimin Zhu, visited our department and discussed cooperation possibilities such as expanding internship programs for students.

There was an event held in the auditorium B103 of building 39. Students enrolled in the graduate course ‘Neural Prosthesis’ of ECE invited people who are actually using the technologies they study to exchange knowledge and information and to encourage each other.

A research lab in 301 building of SNU College of Engineering. SNU ECE researcher Jong-Young Hong pointed to a chair in the corner, offering a seat. There was a slanted, clear glass window in front of the chair. Beyond the glass, lab equipment could be seen.

Researcher Dongup Kwon, currently a PhD student in department of electrical and computer engineering of SNU (Supervisor: Jangwoo Kim), received the 2018 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) fellowhip at the ‘Computing in the 21st Century Conference & Asia Faculty Summit’, which was held in Beijing China on the 6th-7th of November.

Professor Byonghyo Shim and researcher Hyoungju Ji (PhD candidate) received the Best Paper Award at the 24th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), which was held in Ningbo, China on November 12th.