Samsung Electronics Hosts 'Gateway for Scientists' Human Tech Thesis Award Ceremony

Ultrasound Tissue Clearing Technology Award

Samsung Electronics SAIT (formerly Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) announced on the 26th that it held the 30th Samsung Human Tech Paper Award ceremony this month.

Participants at the awards ceremony of the 30th Samsung Human Tech Paper Award held on the 7th are taking a commemorative photo. /
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The Samsung Human Tech Paper Award is a global academic conference hosted by Samsung Electronics SAIT. It has been held annually since 1994 with the purpose of expanding the base of science and technology and nurturing talent. Papers from high school, university, and graduate school science talents both domestically and internationally are reviewed and awarded.

At this award ceremony, Jinwoo Kim from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), who presented the ‘Ultrasound Tissue Transparency Technology’ that increases laser penetration depth using low ultrasound energy, received the grand prize in the university category. Hyun Choi, a student attending Yongsan High School, won the gold prize in the high school category for the physics and earth science division.

Samsung Electronics conducted an online mentoring program for the first time at this Samsung Human Tech Paper Award. The program helped students with no prior experience in writing papers through the entire process from abstract to final paper writing. At the award ceremony, the research contents of the winners were exhibited, and opportunities for interaction with researchers from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology were provided to the awardees.

Song Yong-ho, Vice President and Head of Solution Development Office, Memory Business Division, Samsung Electronics, who won the bronze award in the Computer Systems category at the 5th Samsung Human Tech Paper Awards /
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From 1994 to 2023, Samsung Electronics received a total of 37,847 papers over 30 years, averaging about 1,262 papers submitted annually. The cumulative number of awarded papers is 2,956. Many of these papers have been published in world-renowned academic journals such as Nature and introduced at semiconductor field academic conferences.

Samsung Electronics provides various benefits to awardees, including prize money of up to 40 million KRW for the university category and support for visits to domestic business sites. Awardees who receive bronze prizes or higher and apply for the Samsung Electronics level 3 new employee recruitment in the research and development job group are exempted from the job suitability evaluation and the GSAT (Samsung Aptitude Test).

At the 5th Samsung Human Tech Paper Award, Yongho Song, Vice President and Head of Solution Development at Samsung Electronics Memory Business Division, who received the bronze prize in the computer systems division, advised students considering applying for the competition: "Actively challenge yourselves," saying, "The experience of achieving new accomplishments through challenges itself is very meaningful." He added, "This will help you grow further as a researcher and serve as a great foundation for future research."

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