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NEW (2015-12-07)Ajou's Professor Young June Choi wins the 2015 Haedong Young Scholar Award

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Ajou's Professor Young June Choi wins the 2015 Haedong Young Scholar Award

2015-12-07


Ajou University's Professor Young June Choi (Department of Information and Computer Engineering) won the '2015 Haedong Young Scholar Award' from the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS). The award ceremony was held on December 4th at the Palace Hotel Seoul.


The KICS Hadong Awards are presented by the Haedong Science and Culture Foundation, which was established by Chairman Jeong Shik Kim of Daeduck Electronics. Chairman Kim has developed printed circuit board businesses for about forty years. The awards are given to scholars who have made outstanding academic and technological accomplishments in the fields related to electronic engineering.


Award-winners must be forty or younger, have contributed articles to the KICS Journal and international journals listed in the Science Citation Index during the previous five years, and are expected to contribute to academic activities in Korea and abroad in coming years. Each award winner is given a plaque along with prize money of ten million won.


Professor Choi had the honor of winning the award by successfully developing new communications and networking technologies in wireless resource management for mobile communications networks, mobile electricity management, access to dynamic spectrum, and network security.


The other winner of the Young Scholar Award for this year was Professor Bang Cheol Jung from Chungnam National University. The Hadong Grand Prize went to Professor Gyeong Cheol Yang from Pohang University of Science And Technology, and CEO June Chung of Solid was selected as the winner of the Hadong Technology Award.
 


* From left to right, Chairman Jeong Shik Kim of Daeduck Electronics, Ajou's Professor Young June Choi, Professor Bang Cheol Jung from Chungnam National University, and KICS President Jong Seon Noh.