Seoul National University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Achieves Outstanding Success at the 31st Samsung Humantech Paper Awards, Winning the Most Awards in the University Category


Seoul National University’s College of Engineering announced that the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Chair: Professor YongTaek Hong) won the Special Award for the most awards in the university category, along with multiple other top prizes at the 31st Samsung Human-Tech Paper Award, hosted by Samsung Electronics and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea JoongAng Daily.

Established in 1994, the Samsung Humantech Paper Awards recognizes outstanding students from universities, graduate schools, and high schools in Korea and abroad, aiming to foster the next generation of scientific and technological leaders. This year, a record-breaking 3,152 papers were submitted, with 116 teams receiving awards. Seoul National University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has consistently produced numerous award-winning students in this prestigious competition.

The Samsung Humantech Paper Awards consists of individual awards for outstanding researchers and special awards presented to universities and advisors for their exceptional achievements.

This year, students from research labs led by Professors Byonghyo Shim, Jaehyouk Choi, Jongho Lee, Saewoong Bahk, and Kyunghan Lee won a total of 11 awards, including one Grand Prize and two Gold Prizes. As a result, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University once again achieved the honor of winning the ‘Most Awarded University Department’ Special Award, following last year’s success. Additionally, Professor Jongho Lee from the department was awarded the ‘Most Submitted Papers by an Advisor’ Special Award.

Students from the department also achieved remarkable results in the individual university category, securing the highest-ranking Grand Prize across 10 different divisions. They also won Gold Prizes in the ‘Circuit Design’ and ‘Signal Processing’ divisions, demonstrating excellence in both quality and quantity.

Jihoon Moon (Advisor: Professor Byonghyo Shim) was awarded the Grand Prize for developing a novel millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO system channel prediction method using multi-modal sensing

Additionally, Jaeho Kim (Advisor: Professor Jaehyouk Choi; Co-authors: Myeongho Han and Joo-Eun Bang, Ph.D.) received the Gold Prize in the ‘Circuit Design’ division for designing a new Command-Aware power regulation circuit that ensures ultra-high-density I/O signal integrity with minimal additional power consumption, even at high operating speeds, by utilizing the operating characteristics of HBM memory interfaces.

Jihwan Kim (Advisor: Professor Bohyung Han; Co-authors: Junoh Kang and Jinyoung Choi) won the Gold Prize in the ‘Signal Processing’ division for proposing the innovative ‘FIFO-Diffusion’ technology, which enables the generation of infinitely long videos using existing video generation models that were previously limited to producing short-length videos.

Other awardees include Juhun Shin (Advisor: Professor Saewoong Bahk), Jonghyun Ko (Advisor: Professor Jongho Lee), and Munjae Chae (Advisor: Professor Jaehyouk Choi), who received Silver Prizes.

The detailed award results are as follows.

[Contact Information]
Staff Member Soyeon Lee / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Administrative Office, College of Engineering, Seoul National University / soyeon12@snu.ac.kr