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< Professor Changho Suh >
Professor Changho Suh from the School of Electrical Engineering was named the recipient of the 2021 James L.Massey Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the information theory community. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and revered teacher and mentor to communications engineers.
Professor Suh is a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2021 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 2019 AFOSR Grant, the 2019 Google Education Grant, the 2018 IEIE/IEEE Joint Award, the 2015 IEIE Haedong Young Engineer Award, the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2011 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize (the best dissertation award in UC Berkeley EECS), the 2009 IEEE ISIT Best Student Paper Award, the 2020 LINKGENESIS Best Teacher Award (the campus-wide Grand Prize in Teaching), and the four Departmental Teaching Awards (2013, 2019, 2020, 2021).
Dr. Suh is an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer, the General Chair of the Inaugural IEEE East Asian School of Information Theory, and a Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is also an Associate Editor of Machine Learning for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the Editor for the IEEE Information Theory Newsletter, a Column Editor for IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, an Area Chair of NeurIPS 2021, and on the Senior Program Committee of IJCAI 2019–2021.
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research KAIST Team Wins IEEE RA-L Best Paper Award for Second Year in a Row
A research team led by Professor Jee-Hwan Ryu of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST has received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), one of the world's most prestigious journals in robotics, for the second consecutive year. KAIST(President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on June 22 that Professor Ryu's team received the award during ICRA 2026, held in Vienna, Austria, with the award ceremony taking place on June 4. Following its recogn
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research KAIST Teams Win Both International Challenges at ICRA 2026 and CVPR 2026
Two research teams from KAIST have claimed first place in international challenge competitions held at the world’s premier robotics and computer vision conferences. KAIST (President Kwang-Hyung Lee) announced that the ACDC-K Team and the Curaytor Team, both from the laboratory of Prof. Hyun Myung in the School of Electrical Engineering, won first place in international challenge competitions held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026
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event KAIST Professor S. Josephine Suh Receives the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award
<Professor S. Josephine Suh> Professor S. Josephine Suh wins the Frontiers of Science Award for the second consecutive year following last year - Honored for her paper published in November 2017, targeting research papers that have achieved significant results within the last 10 years - Recognized internationally for leading research achievements in the fields of quantum gravity and quantum field theory KAIST announced on June 12th that a co-authored research paper by Professor S. Jose
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research Humanoid Robot Pilot PIBOT Wins Best Paper Award at the World’s Most Prestigious Robotics Magazine
< (From left of the award recipients) Ph. D candidate Sungjae Min, Ph. D candidate Gyuree Kang, Professor David Hyunchul Shim, Ph.D candidate Hyungjoo Kim > KAIST announced on June 5th that a paper proposing an aircraft autonomous piloting framework based on the humanoid robot pilot ‘PIBOT,’ developed by a research team led by Professor David Hyunchul Shim of the School of Electrical Engineering, was selected as the Best Paper Award among the papers published in the IEEE R
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event Professor Hoon Sohn of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Selected as the June Winner of the 'Korea Scientist and Engineer Award'
Professor Hoon Sohn from KAIST Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been selected as the June winner of the 'Korea Scientist and Engineer Award.' The Korea Scientist and Engineer Award is presented monthly by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) to a researcher who has made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology through original research achievements over the past three years. The award incl
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