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<(from left) M.S. Candidate Geon-Hyeong Kang, Yooseung Wang, Jiwon Choi and Ph.D. candidate Jiwan Kim >
M.S. Candidate Geon-Hyeong Kang(Prof. Sanghun Jeon), Yooseung Wang(Prof. Changick, Kim), Jiwon Choi(Prof. Hoi-Jun, Yoo) and
Ph.D. Candidate Jiwan Kim(Prof. Ian Oakley), Beomseok Oh(Prof. Yongdae, Kim) were selected as the 1st Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students.
The final selected Presidential Science Scholarship recipients will be awarded a scholarship certificate in the president’s name.
Master’s students will receive 1.5 million won per month (18 million won per year, maximum 36 million won), and
Doctoral students will receive 2 million won per month (24 million won per year, maximum 96 million won)
This year’s selection competition rate was 25:1 with a total of 2,980 applicants.
Doctoral students Seonjeong Lee and Dongho Choi from Professor Seunghyup Yoo’s research lab have won the Best Presentation Paper Award and the Excellent Presentation Paper Award, respectively
Our department’s doctoral students Seonjeong Lee and Dongho Choi from Professor Seunghyup Yoo’s research lab have won the Best Presentation Paper Award and the Excellent Presentation Paper Award, respectively, at the 2024 Spring Conference of the Korean Sensors Society.
The Spring Conference of the Korean Sensors Society is held annually in the spring, and this year’s conference took place from April 29 to 30 at the Daejeon Convention Center (DCC).
Doctoral students Choi Dongho and Lee Seonjeong presented papers titled “Vertically stacked organic pulse oximetry sensors with low power consumption and high signal fidelity” and “Micro-scale Pressure Sensor Based on the Gradual Electric Double Layer Modulation Mechanism,” respectively.
The details are as follows:
0 Conference: 2024 Spring Conference of the Korean Sensors Society
0 Date: April 29-30, 2024
0 Award title: Best Presentation Paper Award
0 Authors: Sun-jeong Lee, Sang-hoon Park, Hae-chang Lee, Han-eol Moon, Seung-hyup Yoo (advisor)
0 Paper: Micro-scale Pressure Sensor Based on the Gradual Electric Double Layer Modulation Mechanism
0 Award title: Excellent Presentation Paper Award
0 Authors: Dong-ho Choi, Chan-hwi Kang, Seung-hyup Yoo (advisor)
0 Paper: Vertically stacked organic pulse oximetry sensors with low power consumption and high signal fidelity
B.S. Candidate Do A Kwon (Prof. Jae-Woong Jeong) wins Outstanding Poster Award at the 2024 Spring Conference of The Korean Sensors Society & Sensor Expo Korea-Forum
B.S. student Do A Kwon (Advised by Jae-Woong Jeong) won the Outstanding Poster Award at the 2024 Spring Conference of The Korean Sensors Society & Sensor Expo Korea-Forum.
The Conference of the Korean Sensors Society is held biannually in spring and fall. This spring, it was held at the Daejeon Convention Center (DCC) from April 29 to 30th.
Do A Kwon, an undergraduate student, published a paper titled “Body-temperature softening electronic ink for additive manufacturing of transformative bioelectronics via direct writing” and was selected as the winner in recognition of her excellence.
The paper introduces body-temperature softening electronic ink that can be patterned in high resolution.
It is expected to open unprecedented possibilities in personalized medical devices, wearable electronics, printed circuit boards, soft robots, and more, pushing the existing limitations in electronic devices with fixed form factors.
0 Conference: 2024 Spring Conference of The Korean Sensors Society
0 Date: April 29-30, 2024
0 Award: Outstanding Poster Award
0 Authors: Do A Kwon, Simok Lee, Jae-Woong Jeong (Advisory Professor)
0 Paper Title: Body-temperature softening electronic ink for additive manufacturing of transformative bioelectronics via direct writing
<(from left) Professor Jae-Woong Jeong, Do A Kwon>
EE Professor Joung-Ho Kim Establishes NAVER-Intel-KAIST AI Joint Research Center(NIK AI Research Center) for the Development of Next-Generation AI Semiconductor Eco-System
EE Ph.D. candidate Subin Oh (Prof. Jae-Woong Jung) wins Best Paper Award at SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2024
<(From left) Ph.D. candidate Subin Oh, Award Certificate>
Ph.D. student Subin Oh (Advised by Jae-Woong Jeong) won the Best Paper Award at SPIE Smart Structures + NDE 2024.
The SPIE Smart Structures + NDE brings together engineers and researchers as they share important advances that help move multifunctional materials, sensor systems, and structural health monitoring technologies into the future.
This conference was held from March 25 to 28 in Los Angeles, USA with over 450 papers presented. Ph.D. student Subin Oh presented the paper titled “Shape morphing magnetic materials using liquid metal for 3D electronics and soft robots”.
Professor Hoirin Kim’s research team wins ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Professor Kyeongha Kwon’s Research Team Develops a Bioelectronic System for Monitoring Bladder Function After Surgery Using Electronic Sensors
*A catheter is a thin tube made of rubber or metal that is inserted into the bladder.
The research team led by Professor Kyeongha Kwon from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST announced on the 16th that they have developed digital healthcare technology that accurately measures the size and pressure changes of the bladder through joint research with Dr. Jihye Kim from Northwestern University in the United States.
Partial cystectomy* requires a long recovery period, during which the urinary tract’s ability to expel urine externally is intermittently assessed through urodynamic studies** (UDS). However, UDS is not patient-friendly, results can vary among users, and it is limited in its ability to collect continuous data. Furthermore, it can lead to the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections and, in high-risk patients, can progress to ascending pyelonephritis. As an appropriate alternative to UDS, there is a need for technology that can continuously and in real-time monitor the condition of the bladder without the insertion of a catheter.
*Partial cystectomy: A surgery that involves cutting out the tumor-bearing part of the bladder and stitching the rest of the bladder back together.
**Urodynamic studies: Diagnostic tests to assess the overall function of the bladder and urethra to plan treatment.
In response, the research team developed an implantable bladder platform that can wirelessly remotely measure mechanical deformation changes related to bladder filling and emptying. This system uses biodegradable strain sensors to measure the size and pressure changes of the bladder in real-time, and the sensors naturally dissolve and disappear within the body after the recovery period. This eliminates the need for additional surgery to remove the monitoring equipment, reduces the risk of complications, and improves patient comfort and recovery time.
Professor Kyeongha Kwon said, “Through extensive experiments using non-human primates (marmosets), we have demonstrated the efficacy of a device that provides accurate and reliable data on bladder function,” and added, “This can be used to shorten patients’ recovery time and improve overall surgical outcomes.”
The results of this study were published in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)’ on April 2nd. (Article title: A wireless, implantable bioelectronic system for monitoring urinary bladder function following surgical recovery, link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2400868121?af=R)
This research was conducted with the support of the Basic Research Program, the Regional Innovation Lead Research Center Project, and BK21 funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea.
