Undergraduate Student at Pukyong National University Wins Excellence Award at the Korean Acoustic Society Paper Presentation Conference

Daehun Kim, a student majoring in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Smart Healthcare, Pukyong National University, received the Excellence Award at the 2023 Spring Academic Paper Presentation Conference of the Acoustical Society of Korea.

At the recent conference held at the Booyoung Hotel & Resort in Jeju, Kim presented his research titled “Automatic Monitoring System Using Ultrasonic Signals and Convolutional Neural Networks for Red Tide Detection,” which received high praise.

Red tide is a phenomenon where the seawater turns red due to the massive proliferation of plankton, causing massive fish kills in coastal areas worldwide and severely impacting marine ecosystems.

To minimize such damage, the establishment of a red tide monitoring system is required. Existing red tide monitoring systems have limitations such as low accuracy and requiring a long time to produce results.

To address these issues, Daehun Kim presented a highly accurate real-time automatic red tide monitoring system using ultrasound and convolutional neural networks.

Daehun Kim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University.

Advisor Haegyun Lim said, “This is a good example showing that research conducted ambitiously even at the undergraduate level can achieve meaningful results,” and added, “It is expected that the research will be further developed during the master’s program to make a significant contribution to red tide detection technology.”

At the 2023 Spring Academic Paper Presentation Conference of the Acoustical Society of Korea, over 150 research topics were presented across 16 categories, including ‘Ultrasound and Medical Acoustics’ and ‘Underwater Acoustics.’

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.