"Outstanding Achievements in Plant and AI Research"... Hwang Ildoo and Cho Sungbae Win Samyang Sudang Award

Achievements in Biomass and Artificial Intelligence Highlighted

Contributions to the Advancement of Industry and Academia Recognized

Award Ceremony to Be Held at Lotte Hotel Seoul

The Sudang Foundation, a scholarship foundation under Samyang Group, announced on the 28th that it has selected Professor Hwang Ildoo, Seokcheon Chair Professor at the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology, and Professor Cho Sungbae from the Department of Computer Science at Yonsei University as the recipients of the 35th Sudang Award.

The Sudang Foundation selected Hwang Ildu, Seokcheon Chair Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (left), and Cho Sungbae, Professor of Computer Science at Yonsei University, as the recipients of the 35th Sudang Award. Samyang Group

The Sudang Award was established to honor researchers who have contributed to the advancement of society and academia, in line with the spirit of industrial patriotism and talent development of Kim Yeonsu. Established in 1973, this year marks its 35th edition. Every year, two outstanding researchers are selected and each receives a plaque and a prize of 200 million won. The award ceremony for the 35th Sudang Award will be held on May 27 at Lotte Hotel Seoul.

Professor Hwang Ildoo, honored in the Basic Science category, was recognized for elucidating the developmental signaling systems and vascular bundle evolution principles that are key to plant biomass production and the development of environmentally friendly crops. In particular, he was the first in the world to clarify the signaling mechanism of the plant growth hormone cytokinin, and to prove that this hormone plays a decisive role in the development of vascular bundles and the regulation of plant senescence.

He also identified that proteins derived from plant phloem are crucial factors in determining leaf morphology, and newly proposed the integrated regulation mechanism between leaves and phloem, as well as the evolutionary principles of vascular plants. Professor Hwang has received the Macrogen Science Award, the Cargill-Hallym Life Science Award, and the National Academy of Sciences Award of Korea, among others.

Professor Cho Sungbae, awarded in the Applied Science category, was recognized for his contributions to solving industrial problems through the use of advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Professor Cho conducted research to improve the accuracy of energy demand forecasting by combining convolutional neural networks (CNN) with long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks.

In particular, by using household electricity usage data, he demonstrated the potential for energy efficiency improvements by deriving consistent predictions across various variables such as time periods, weather, and lifestyle patterns. This research was selected as a top 1% most-cited paper in the journal 'Energy' in 2020.

In addition, Professor Cho has expanded the industrial applicability of deep learning technologies across various fields, including smartphone sensor-based activity recognition, mobile landmark detection, and vehicle noise classification. He has received the Korea Information Science Society Academic Award and the Order of Service Merit, and has served as the Chair of the Technology Innovation Subcommittee of the National Artificial Intelligence Committee.

A representative of the Sudang Foundation stated, "We will continue to discover and support researchers who achieve both academic excellence and social contribution."

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