GIST Wins 27th Human Tech Paper Award

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) announced on the 10th that it produced a total of four award-winning teams, including the Gold Prize, Bronze Prize, and Encouragement Prize, at the 27th ‘Human Tech Thesis Award’ hosted by Samsung Electronics.

The awardees are ▲Gold Prize: Minseok Kim and Gilju Lee, PhD students in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ▲Bronze Prize: Inhwan Bae, master’s student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ▲Encouragement Prize: Minhyung Kang (master’s student), Gilju Lee, Junghoon Lee, Minseok Kim (PhD students) and Haesol Kim (PhD student in the School of Materials Science and Engineering).

The Gold Prize winners, Minseok Kim and Gilju Lee, proposed an optical physical anti-counterfeiting system without lenses through their research on ‘Lensless Optical Physical Anti-Counterfeiting System Using Fiber Materials,’ which operates without separate optical materials such as lenses, unlike conventional optical physical anti-counterfeiting systems.

This system utilizes light diffraction and interference phenomena and has very high competitiveness as a next-generation security device.

The Bronze Prize winner, Inhwan Bae, in the research on ‘Pedestrian Path Prediction System Using Multi-Relational Graphs,’ represented all pedestrians in the scene as a spatiotemporal graph to express social interactions and proposed a new methodology that allows the path to be restored toward the original destination direction.

In particular, it attracted attention by showing higher accuracy in predicting pedestrians’ long-term paths compared to existing recurrent models.

The Encouragement Prize winners, Minhyung Kang, Gilju Lee, Junghoon Lee, and Minseok Kim, proposed a wearable device integrated with radiative cooling materials that can solve heating problems indoors and outdoors through their research on ‘Thermally Stable Patch-Type Wireless Wearable Biosignal Sensors.’ They successfully implemented a wearable oxygen saturation device capable of accurately measuring muscle oxygen saturation even under strong sunlight.

The proposed technology is a completely new form of cooling solution and is expected to be applied to various wearable devices in the future.

Another Encouragement Prize winner, Haesol Kim, in the research on ‘Identification of Active Sites of Single-Atom Nickel Catalysts for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Conversion,’ introduced a precisely controlled atomic-level structure and derived the active sites of outstanding single-atom transition metal catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion.

They confirmed that efficient carbon dioxide conversion is possible at the distorted structure’s active sites and presented an approach for developing high-performance carbon dioxide conversion catalysts.

The Human Tech Thesis Award is a thesis award selected annually by Samsung Electronics since 1994, aimed at discovering scientists who will be the cornerstone for entering the advanced science and technology countries of the 21st century among domestic and international university, graduate, and high school students.

In the university division, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Encouragement prizes are awarded in a total of 10 categories, with one Grand Prize selected overall. Awardees receive prize money as a reward, with the Gold, Bronze, and Encouragement prizes receiving 10 million won, 5 million won, and 2 million won respectively.

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