🏆 Congratulations to Sukkyung Kang, a Ph.D. candidate (supervised by Prof. Sanha Kim), for winning the Gold Prize in Mechanical Engineering at the 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Awards! 🎉.Read more: #KAIST #KAISTME.

Dr. Jaemin Kim has been appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Changwon National University, effective Jan 1, 2025. He specialized in digital twin methods and computational mechanics for the neurovascular system.

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Prof. Seunghwa Ryu’s team, in collaboration with Prof. Jinhyoung Park (KoreaTech), optimized rotational triboelectric nanogenerators (R-TENGs) using Bayesian optimization, significantly enhancing energy harvesting efficiency. The study was published in Nano Energy.

Prof. Doo Yong Lee received the Commendation of the Minister of Science and ICT for his contributions to national R&D planning, preliminary feasibility studies, and program evaluations.

Prof. Seunghwa Ryu’s team developed a generative AI-based system to infer optimal production conditions for plastic injection molding, enhancing efficiency and quality. The study was published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems.

Ph.D. candidates Hyeokjun K, Dae-Hee P, and Jaewoo J (Advisor: Prof. Kuk-Jin Yoon) from KAIST ME were selected for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024. #KAIST #QIF #AIart .

Dr. HyeokJun K (’25 Ph.D.) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at Chung-Ang Univ., effective Mar 1, 2025. He earned his Ph.D. from KAIST ME, researching 2D/3D semantic segmentation and vision models. He will focus on data-efficient perception and human-AI collaboration.

Dr. Dae-Hee Park (’25 Ph.D.) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at DGIST EECS, effective Feb 24, 2025. He earned his Ph.D. from KAIST ME, researching human intent & motion prediction in autonomous driving. He will focus on decision-making AI for motion planning.

Dr. Sung-Hoon Yoon (‘25 Ph.D., KAIST) joins DGIST as an Assistant Professor in EECS. His research focuses on label-efficient learning, weakly supervised semantic segmentation, medical AI, and foundation models. #KAIST #DGIST #AI

Prof. Koo Seungbum’s team wins 1st place in Gait Motion at MyoChallenge, NeurIPS 2024, with a deep reinforcement learning controller enabling stable walking on diverse terrains. More info:

Prof. Hongki Yoo’s team develops a new intravital imaging technology to compensate for arterial motion, enabling real-time cellular dynamics visualization in blood vessels. Published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. More info:

Sukkyung Kang (Advisor: Sanha Kim) receives the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2024 KSPE Spring Conference for her presentation on 'CMP Technology for Cu/Polymer in 3D Stacked Semiconductor Fabrication.' More info:

Ph.D. Candidate Byung-Ho Kang (supervised by Prof. Inkyu Park) wins Best Paper Award at ISMNM 2024 for his paper on 'Water-Assisted Nanostructure Transfer onto Curved Surfaces for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering.' More info:

Ph.D. Candidate Kichul Lee (supervised by Prof. Inkyu Park) wins Best Paper Award at ISMNM 2024 for his paper on 'Ultra-Low Power Micro-LED Embedded Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks Chemiresistor Arrays.' More info:

Prof. Yong-Jin Yoon’s team (KAIST ME) discovered a novel shock control technique using bottleneck phenomena in nonlinear bistable systems. Published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (IF 7.9). More:

Seung-Yeon Jang (KAIST ME Ph.D. candidate, Advisor: Prof. Ki-Uk Kyung) won the Best Poster Award at the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston for research on shape-morphing tactile displays using PVC gel actuators. More:

Ph.D. candidate Taeyeong Kim won the 1st Best Paper Award from The Korean Federation of Mechanical Engineering Societies for his work on uniform silicon micro/nanoparticles for lithium-ion battery anodes. More: #MEMS

Prof. Yong-Jin Yoon's team at KAIST ME reveals how input force direction & phase in bone conduction (BC) transducers impact hearing. This breakthrough aids BC hearing aid optimization. Learn more: #HearingResearch #BoneConduction

Jaehyun Park, Sangmin Kim, and Hyunseok Kim (DRCD Lab, Prof. Haewon Park) won the Outstanding Paper Award at ICCAS 2024 for their method enhancing legged robot stability using motion planning and reinforcement learning. Read more: #Robotics #ICCAS2024

Woojin Lee (BOOM Lab, Prof. Yoo) won the Best Poster Award at the Advanced Biophotonics Conference 2024 for his work on OCT-based thyroid cancer diagnosis, offering non-invasive, high-resolution, label-free 3D imaging. Read more: #Biophotonics #OCT