{"id":198364,"date":"2025-07-01T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/?post_type=research-achieve&#038;p=198364"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:48:17","slug":"three-graduate-students-from-the-school-of-electrical-engineering-selected-as-recipients-of-the-2nd-presidential-science-scholarship-for-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"research-achieve","link":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/research-achieve\/three-graduate-students-from-the-school-of-electrical-engineering-selected-as-recipients-of-the-2nd-presidential-science-scholarship-for-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Graduate Students from the School of Electrical Engineering Selected as Recipients of the 2nd Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198361\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198361\" src=\"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\uc81c\ubaa9\uc744-\uc785\ub825\ud574\uc8fc\uc138\uc694_-001-2_enhancer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">&lt;Left to right: Ph.D. students Kyeongha Rho, Seokjun Park, and Juntaek Lim&gt;<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Three Ph.D. students from EE\u2014Kyeongha Rho\u00a0(advisor:\u00a0Joon Son Chung),\u00a0Seokjun Park\u00a0(advisor:\u00a0Jinseok Choi), and\u00a0Juntaek Lim\u00a0(advisor:\u00a0Minsoo Rhu)\u2014have been selected as recipients of the 2nd Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kyeongha Rho\u00a0is conducting research on multimodal self-supervised learning, as well as multimodal perception and generation models.\u00a0Seokjun Park is currently researching optimization techniques for low-power beamforming in satellite and multi-access systems for next-generation 6G wireless communications, as well as predictive beamforming utilizing artificial intelligence in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems.\u00a0Juntaek Lim focuses on developing high-performance, secure computing systems by integrating security across both hardware and software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Students is a new initiative launched last year by the Korea Student Aid Foundation to foster world-class research talent in science and engineering. Final awardees receive a certificate of scholarship in the name of the President, along with financial support\u2014KRW 1.5 million per month (KRW 18 million annually) for master&#8217;s students and KRW 2 million per month (KRW 24 million annually) for Ph.D. students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">This year\u2019s selection process for the scholarship was highly competitive, with 2,355 applicants vying for 120 spots, resulting in a competition ratio of approximately 20:1.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":198363,"template":"","research_category":[],"class_list":["post-198364","research-achieve","type-research-achieve","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve\/198364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research-achieve"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_category?post=198364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}