Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong · Taeghwan Hyeon, appointed as chair-professor at Seoul National University

 

▲ Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (left), Professor Taeghwan Hyeon of School of Chemical and Biological Engineering (right)

 

Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor Taeghwan Hyeon of School of Chemical and Biological Engineering were appointed as chair-professor at Seoul National University since September. Currently, there are only four chair-professors at SNU including Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong and Professor Taeghwan Hyeon.
 
Professor Deog-Kyoon Jeong is a global leader in the field of high-speed digital circuit design. He has developed a digital video transmission method that transmits high-quality images at high speed without damage and standardized it as a digital visual interface (DVI). These DVIs have been developed and extended to High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), and HDMI is currently being used as a standard interface for almost all flat panel displays.
 
Professor Jeong is a member of the IEEE Fellow and was awarded Doyeon-Changjo medal from Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Excellent Professor Award from College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Young Excellent Engineer Award and Ho-Am Award (engineering division) from The National Academy of Engineering of Korea and four Excellent Lecture Awards from College of Engineering, Seoul National University. Up to the present time, he has registered a total of 87 US patents and has been operating Next Generation Circuit Design Research Center (NIRC), which connects industry and the academia.  
  

In addition, Professor Hyeon has published over 300 papers by actively conducting studies on various fields of nanomaterial production and its application, such as nanoparticles and nanoporous materials for 20 years since 1997. He has been leading the field of nanotechnology and his total citation record, which accounts for researcher’s international academic reputation, exceeds 37,000. 

 
Furthermore, he is an editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of chemistry, and was selected as Materials Research Society Fellow and Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow. In addition, he was awarded POSCO Cheongam Science Award and Ho-Am Award (engineering division), and was ranked 37th among the world's top 100 chemists announced in 2011 for the world chemistry year. In 2016, he won the IUVSTA Technology Award, which was awarded by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies and International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Application (IUVSTA) for his achievements as an international leader in the development of nanoparticle synthesis.