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SNU ECE undergraduate student Jaeyeon Yoon presented his research during the ‘Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine’(6,000 participants), the largest conference in the field of MRI, which was held from June 16th to 21st in Paris, France.

On August 31st, 2018, the information session for graduate program spring admissions was held at Room 118 in Building 301.

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.