Dr. Gilju Lee, Best Graduate Student Selected by the Optical Society of America

Student Gilju Lee, who is pursuing a doctoral program at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

[Asia Economy Reporter Junho Hwang] Gilju Lee, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, has been selected as the top graduate student in the field of optical engineering by "Frontiers in Optics," a journal published by The Optical Society (OSA) in the United States. This is the first time a top graduate student chosen by this journal has come from South Korea.

According to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology on the 16th, Gilju Lee was selected for the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant, which recognizes three graduate students with outstanding research achievements among optical engineering papers published in this journal.

The Optical Society of America has been selecting top graduate students since 2010 in honor of its former president and CEO, Hilbert. Those selected as top graduate students receive a $1,100 scholarship to attend the "Frontiers in Optics Conference."

Gilju Lee gained attention by publishing a paper on a single-lens ultra-wide-angle camera inspired by the eyes of underwater creatures. The design proposed in the paper drastically reduces the number of lenses compared to commercial wide-angle cameras, enabling the implementation of an ultra-compact camera module at 6.3% of the size of commercial cameras.

This paper is the result of joint research by Professor Youngmin Song’s research team, to which Gilju Lee belongs, and Professor Daehyung Kim’s research team at Seoul National University. It was featured in the international journal Nature Electronics in June.

Gilju Lee said, "I am grateful to Professor Youngmin Song, who guided me to achieve these research results, my senior and junior lab members, and Professor Daehyung Kim’s research team," adding, "I plan to continue conducting research in the field of next-generation cameras and vision systems inspired by biological eyes."

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