The master＇s thesis of Hyeongyeol Ryu (Advisor： Su..

The master's thesis of Hyeongyeol Ryu (advisor: Sung-Eui Yoon), a master's graduate of the School of Computing, was presented at the ICRA 2022 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), the largest conference in robotics held in Philadelphia, USA from May 23 to 27. This research paper was selected for the Outstanding Navigation Award Finalist at the ICRA conference. Only 40 papers among 1500 papers from all categories presented at the conference are selected for this award. Confidence-Based Robot Navigation Under Sensor Occlusion with Deep Reinforcement Learning Hyeongyeol Ryu, Minsung Yoon, Daehyung Park, and Sung-Eui Yoon IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022 http://sglab.kaist.ac.kr/CBN-DRL/ This work, which was co-conducted with a reinforcement learning professional Professor Daehyung Park of our school, presents a technology that ensures robots' operation even in case of sensor pollution due to a foreign substance. This research was carried out based on the capabilities accumulated from collaborating with professors and researchers in the field of robotics at KAIST for many years through government projects including, research on unmanned vehicles with Professor Hyunchul Shim (School of Electrical Engineering) since 2012, Humanoid project with Professor Sungho Cho (School of Computing) and Emeritus Junho Oh (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Drone project with Professor Hyun-Myung (School of Electrical Engineering), and Quadruped robot project with Professor Hae-Won Park (Department of Mechanical Engineering).

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Professor Daehyung Park was selected as the recipi..

< Professor Daehyung Park > Professor Daehyung Park of our School was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Google Research Scholar Award. Google Research Scholar Program is an international program to support new professors who are conducting world-class research. This year, the program will support research on "Physics-Informed Interactive Skill Learning Toward In-hand Manipulation of Deformable Objects" by Professor Park's research team. This study proposes a method for learning the physical knowledge-based interaction skill of a robot hand for manipulating atypical objects. It will show manipulation techniques applicable in real life through the use of 1) physical knowledge-based reinforcement learning, 2) interaction-based reinforcement learning, and 3) Sim2Real transfer learning. The research plan will be updated at the URL below. https://rirolab.kaist.ac.kr/research/

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Ulzhalgas Rakhman received the “Outstanding Paper ..

Ph.D. student Ulzhalgas Rakhman advised by Professor Daehyung Park in the Robust Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (RIRO Lab) received the “Outstanding Paper Award'' at the 17th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC 2022) organized by the Korea Robotics Society. KRoC is the best robot specialized academic conference in South Korea. The conference was held hybrid (both online and offline) for three days, from May 11th to May 14th in Phoenix Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do. 64 papers were submitted to the conference and 6 papers among them were selected as outstanding papers. The research paper[1] entitled “Reactive Task Planning using Scene Graphs for Robust Robotic Manipulation” was selected as an outstanding paper at the conference. The awarded research paper proposed a reactive task planning and execution framework adopting scene-graph to resolve the problem of external interventions in robotic assembly tasks. The framework overview is illustrated below: The research was supported by a National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2021RICICI004368 and 2021R1A4A3032834). [1] Ulzhalgas Rakhman, Jaehoon Yoo, Yeseung Kim, Deokmin Hwang, Seunghoon Hong, and Daehyung Park＊, “Reactive Task PLanning using Scene Graphs for Robust Robotic Manipulation”, Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KRoC), 2022

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Students of our school won in the 2021 NC Fellowsh..

< (from left) Kyungwon Jung, Seungmin Hwang, NCSOFT official> On April 25, 2022, Seungmin Hwang and Kyungwon Jung of our School were awarded the winning team in the 2021 NC Fellowship Neural Graphics Competition hosted by NCSOFT. Seungmin Hwang and Kyungwon Jung (KAIST Team Keon-Gon-Yil-Cheok), students in our school, were selected as the “winner" by achieving the best results in the 2021 Neural Graphics Competition, where 6 excellent domestic universities, including KAIST, participated. After taking the Introduction to Computer Graphics (CS380) course lectured by Professor Min H. Kim of the School of Computing in the spring of last year, 4 representative students were selected to participate in the competition from July 2021 to February 2022. In the competition, 2 students work as a team to solve Computer Graphics problems using Deep Learning. ‘NC Fellowship’ is a program led by NCSOFT to support university students to gain experience and knowledge in AI research with the help of engineers. Separately from the previously operated ‘Game AI Track’, the ‘Neural Graphics Track’ newly established in 2021 is a new field that combines Artificial Intelligence and 3D Computer Graphics. The winning team gets a 7 million won prize and internship opportunity.

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Prof. In-Young Ko was inaugurated as the 18th pres..

Prof. In-Young Ko at the School of Computing was inaugurated as the 18th president of the KIISE Software Engineering Society on May 1, 2022. The KIISE Software Engineering Society is Korea's best academic organization in the field of software engineering. It was established in 1987 with the purpose of contributing to the nation's development by promoting academic, educational, and technological development related to software engineering. So far, the Software Engineering Society has provided a venue for active and systematic sharing of software engineering-related theories, experiences, and technologies among members in the field of software engineering at universities, research institutes, corporations, and government institutions. In particular, it hosts various events for software engineers such as the Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE), summer short lectures, invited seminars, and evenings for software engineers, and regularly publishes newsletters. Professor Ko plans to make efforts to revitalize related events and activities in the post-corona era and the internationalization of the Software Engineering Society while serving as president for a two-year term.

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Professor Kihong Heo＇s research team from KAIST Sc..

< Hyunsu Kim (left), Professor Kihong Heo (right) > In May 2022, a research team of KAIST SoC Professor Kihong Heo, his graduate student Hyunsu Kim, and researchers from the University of Southern California, published a paper and received the Best Artifact Award (thesis title: Learning Probabilistic Models for Static Analysis Alarms) at ICSE 2022 (The 44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering), the best academic conference in the field of software engineering. In this paper, the research team proposed a framework for the learning method of the Bayesian alarm ranking system to improve the usability of the SW error detection system using program static analysis, and demonstrated its excellence through systematic experiments. The Best Artifact Award is awarded to a research team recognized for their outstanding research achievements and contributions that have provided the basis for further research by transparently disclosing all implementations and data to academia. The Bayesian Alarm Ranking System is a next-generation software error detection system that Professor Heo's research team has been working on since 2018. Its achievements have been consistently recognized at the best international academic conferences for the past 5 years. In 2019, it was recognized for its academic excellence by receiving the best thesis award at the PLDI conference, the best academic conference in programming languages. In the most recent study, they proposed a learning algorithm that dramatically improves the performance of the system developed over the past five years. In addition, they were honored with the award which was given in recognition of the fact that all data and programs used in the experiment were made publicly accessible to subsequent researchers. Professor Kihong Heo, who is in charge of this research, emphasized, “We scientists are people who, as Newton said, ‘get on the shoulders of giants and see the world from afar'" and “our research was successful because there were records of existing researchers, which we highly appreciate for.” “It would be blissful for us if other follow-up researchers to step on our research artifacts and look further afield,” he added. Paper Link: https://conf.researchr.org/details/icse-2022/icse-2022-papers/62/Learning-Probabilistic-Models-for-Static-Analysis-Alarms Award Link: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2022/icse-2022-awards?#icse-2022-best-artifact-awards

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17 Krafton incumbents donated 100 million won to j..

< (clockwise from left behind) Haechan Lee, Sanghyun Lee, Gunwoo Kim, Seongwon Lee, Kyungdo Park, Prof. Sukyoung Ryu, Jungheon Kim > Seventeen alumni of KAIST School of Computing who are currently working at Krafton donated 100 million won for ‘Sharing Leadership’ of our junior colleagues. Similar to when 11 former and current members of Krafton donated for software talents training in June last year, this donation was a matching donation in which the company's contributions are added to the amount raised by the donors. The donation was initiated by Krafton engineer Sanghyun Lee (Class of '08 Bachelor, Class of '12 Master) by gathering in-house alumni who agreed with the purpose of donating for the juniors of the School of Computing as the seniors. Seven of the donors are members of '5minLab', which Krafton recently acquired, and most of them are from 'Haje', a student game developing organization at the School of Computing. Other alumni had experiences in the computer R&D student club 'Sfax' or the undergraduate student council. They participated in the donation with the desire to be helpful to juniors, recalling the good experiences of their school days. The donors thanked what they had gained from their experiences with challenging and creative people in the free environment provided by the KAIST School of Computing. They discussed the wise use of the donation so that they could develop 'Sharing Leadership' of the juniors. The School of Computing plans to use the donations for ▴Support for the Student Council and student clubs, ▴Funds designated by the School, ▴Fund for building extensions for the School, etc. In particular, this donation will be used for volunteering and donation activities with various members of the school and talent donations events led by the student council. Also, the designated funds delegated by donors are going to be used as scholarship funds for undergraduate students. Seongwon Lee participated in this donation after obtaining his Bachelor's degree in February of this year. Recalling his undergraduate life, he said, "I have a more positive mindset thanks to my colleges who had free spirits to try new things and step onto the paths I never thought of." Gunwoo Kim (Class of '15 Bachelor) said, "I made this donation with the desire to relieve the feeling of debt for the great time I pursued thanks to the good people at a good school." Haechan Lee (Class of '08 Bachelor, Class of '12 Master), who participated in the donation, said, "KAIST School of Computing provides great support for students to have various experiences. I hope the juniors can flourish their time at school and pleasingly donate for their juniors as well in the future.” Kyungdo Park (Class of '04 Bachelor), who has been with Krafton for over 10 years and has been with PUBG since the beginning, said, “I had time to think about what I wanted to do in the free atmosphere unique to the School of Computing.” He continued, "I hope it will help my juniors to think about what they really like and what they want to do and give them an opportunity to choose." Sukyoung Ryu, head of the School, who suggested and encouraged the donation, said, "The free environment of the school, the gratitude to the colleagues who have been with us, and the words of encouragement to the juniors, which donors commonly mention, will give great comfort and courage to students are going through a period of intense school life.” Reference Article: https://news.kaist.ac.kr/news/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=20330

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Professor Meeyoung Cha received the Minister＇s Com..

Professor Meeyoung Cha of the KAIST School of Computing received the Minister's Commendation from the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 55th Science Day. KAIST SoC Professor Meeyoung Cha (in concurrent position with the Institute of Basic Science) was recognized for her contribution to active research works to solve social problems through science and technology, such as developing a leading AI technology that detects fake information and applying it to real cases such as customs tax evasion screening and the corona infodemic problem. Professor Cha's research team's customs tax evasion screening technology was distributed free of charge to the developing countries of the World Customs Organization (WCO). Also, the COVID-19 fact check campaign was spread to 50,000 people in 151 countries to prevent the infodemic. In recognition of her work, Professor Cha was invited to present the campaign at the 4th Infodemic Management Conference, an international academic conference hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). Presentation Video Link Congratulations on your award. Reference Article: https://news.kaist.ac.kr/news/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=20150

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Designing a service robot that can interpret human..

Reference article: https://zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20220421180134 "Making a service robot that can interpret human emotions with AI" This is an interview with Professor Sung-Eui Yoon and Professor Sungho Cho from the KAIST School of Computing. ■ A service robot that assists by understanding human behavior KAIST SoC Professor Sung-Eui Yoon and Professor Sungho Jo jointly conducted research on ‘Robot social interaction technology’. The key to this technology is understanding human behavior and assisting humans using the camera on the robot. Existing robots were limited to performing specific tasks, but these robots have the advantage of being able to help in more diverse situations. Professor Yoon explained, “Robots are interesting at first, but the more you use them, the more you discover the shortcomings of their simplicity." “The goal of our research with KT is to address these shortcomings and create a robot that can cope with various environments,” he added. Prof. Sung-Eui Yoon Robots equipped with social interaction technology can predict human behavior to help with tasks. Professor Yoon explained this using a cooking robot as an example. He said, “When cooking, the existing robots could only help when we cook according to a set scenario. However, with social interaction technology, robots can help even if we change the order of operations.” Professor Jo explained that robot social interaction technology can be applied to all service robots. “The technology can be applied to all robots that serve people,” he said. “For now, we are developing a robot according to general situations, and when there is a specific application case, it will be optimized and released as a product.” Prof. Sungho Jo Professors Yoon and Jo consider a robot that can recognize human emotions as the final stage of robot social interaction technology. Professor Yoon said, “Current technology has broadened the set of robots' actions by recognizing human behavior. If research in related fields continues, it is possible to create a service robot that can read people's emotional state and respond accordingly."

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Jinwoo Kim was selected as a recipient of the Kwan..

Jinwoo Kim, an integrated MS & Ph.D. student (advisor: Prof. Seunghoon Hong) in our department, was selected as a scholarship recipient of the 2022 Kwanjeong Lee Jong-Hwan Education Foundation scholarship as a graduate student in domestic university. He will receive in total 22 million won. The Kwanjeong Education Foundation is the largest scholarship foundation in Asia, where Chairman Lee Jong-hwan of Samyoung Chemical Group has been conducting domestic and foreign scholarship projects since 2002 by donating all of its assets. The program aims to support talented Korean students to grow into global figures in their respective fields. Scholarships for domestic graduate students are decided by their applications and interviews after the recommendation from the school based on their academic ability and research activities. Congratulation, Jinwoo！

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VPlusLab, founded by Professor Moonzoo Kim, offers..

Professor Moonzoo Kim of KAIST School of Computing VPlusLab, founded by KAIST Professor Moonzoo Kim, who is well-known for introducing CROWN 2.0 which is an automated testing tool developed based on world-class AI-based automatic testing technology, announced that it will provide free testing seminars and consultations until April of this year. With the 4th industrial revolution, a number of solutions to increase work efficiency and daily convenience are being launched. Software is the key to the evolution of these technologies. Autonomous driving, which is leading the mobility innovation, is already entering our daily life and is expected to bring various changes. However, there has been rising concern regarding the physical limit for humans to inspect all program codes manually. In response to such interest, VPlusLab is gaining its attention with CROWN 2.0, a 100％ automatic software testing tool using AI. In August last year, VPlusLab expanded its office and moved to Pangyo Techno Valley from Daejeon KAIST. It is seeking to grow into a leading company in the field of automatic software testing by utilizing the infrastructure and network of Pangyo Techno Valley. By participating in the 2022 Korean Software Engineering Conference as a sponsor for “Software Engineering Technology for Reliable Artificial Intelligence”, it continues to prove its competence externally through company PR booths and research papers. VPlusLab plans to provide free software testing seminars and consultations to companies that wish to improve software quality by utilizing its long-time accumulated technical know-how and excellent doctoral expertise. Companies can apply for a visiting seminar through the representative e-mail on the official website of VPlusLab until April 2022.

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Professor Shin Yoo appointed as the General Chair ..

Professor Shin Yoo of the School of Computing at KAIST has been appointed as the General Chair of the 2022 International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE) to be held in November this year. SSBSE celebrates its 14th anniversary this year as an international symposium where experts in the so-called search-based software engineering field gather to solve software engineering problems using metaheuristics and evolutionary computation techniques. SSBSE 2022 will be co-hosted in Singapore in November with the ACM Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), one of the highly recognized conferences in the field of software engineering. https://ssbse.info/

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Min-woo Song, an undergraduate student in KAIST Sc..

Last December 18th, Min-woo Song, an undergraduate student at KAIST School of Computing, published Meta Sapiens, a popular liberal arts book related to the metaverse. This book was recommended by Professor Sangkyun Kim, a well-known domestic expert on metaverse, JH Ryu, the group head of Kakao Entertainment, and Professor Jeong-woo Jang at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, KAIST. Song, who transferred from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department to the School of Computing Science in January of this year, has been working as a 3D graphic designer and Unity3D developer on VRChat, a domestic social VR platform, for the past two years, and has been active in various related user communities for a long time. Song wrote his book based on his experiences with social VR. His book discusses the direction that virtual reality and the established media at the forefront of the metaverse should pursue in the future. It highlights the essence of virtual reality communication by detaching it from the overrated metaverse as a business keyword.

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Dr. Sungkyu Park appointed as an assistant profess..

Dr. Sungkyu Park (Advisor: Professor Meeyoung Cha) Dr. Sungkyu Park, a graduate of our school, was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of AI Convergence at Kangwon National University in March 2022. After graduating from the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Dr. Sungkyu Park received a master's degree in Graduate School of Web Science Technology from KAIST in 2014 (Advisor: Meeyoung Cha) and a doctorate in the Graduate School of Culture and Technology in 2020 (Advisors: Wonjoon Kim and Meeyoung Cha). Then, he worked as a senior researcher in the Data Science Group of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). This year, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of AI Convergence at Kangwon National University. Dr. Sungkyu Park conducts research in predicting and understanding mental health using deep learning-based time series analysis, computer vision, and natural language processing methodologies. He presented his accomplishments in top international conferences in the field including SIGKDD, CSCW, WWW, CVPR, and ECCV. He also published his research findings as a mobile app and served as the CEO of a startup called Sleeps. Dr. Sungkyu Park's website: http://shaun.kr/

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KAIST signs an MoU with Busan Metropolitan City to..

On March 3rd, KAIST decided to establish Auto-ID Labs Korea (Center Director: Professor Daeyoung Kim) in Centum City, Busan, and signed an MoU with Busan Metropolitan City. Auto-ID Labs are an international joint research network for Internet of Things and are composed of premier universities from 6 countries - KAIST, MIT, Cambridge, ETH Zurich/St. Gallen, Fudan, Keio. It is a primary research partner of GS1, a non-profit international organization for developing and maintaining standards. The term Internet of Things was introduced by the Auto-ID Center in 1999 for the first time to the world. http://autoidlabs.org Relevant article : https://busanmbc.co.kr/article/blT21U9obk-N-AQu_

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SoC mourns the passing of alumni Jung-ju Kim, expr..

School of Computing at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) expressed its condolences over the passing of NXC Corp. director Jung-ju Kim, a Nexon founder and KAIST alumni. Director Kim obtained his master's degree in Computer Science at KAIST. In 2015, he also received the Alumni of the Year Award from KAIST College of Engineering. In a letter of condolences released on the 3rd, the School of Computing said, "the sadness from the sudden grievous news is insuppressible, but we pray for the well-being of the deceased and express sincere condolences to the bereaved family” Kim founded Nexon in December 1994 and raised it to the largest game company in Korea. Nexon's 'The Kingdoms of the Winds' is one of the world's longest-running graphic online games. Referring to his achievements, the school said, "Director Kim, through his immeasurable performance, demonstrated the true spirits of KAIST, which are challenge, creativity, and care.” The letter added, "Director Kim spared no investment for the growth of game companies, and was actively engaged in social contribution for the next generation." He financially assisted children's rehabilitation hospitals nationwide, including the opening of the Purme Foundation Nexon Children's Rehabilitation Hospital in 2016, and also launched Asia's first computer museum in Jeju Island in 2013. School of Computing ended the letter expressing “we will remember our alumni Jeong-ju Kim, a free spirit, and will honor the challenges, efforts, achievements, and will of the deceased.” Reference article: https://www.etnews.com/20220303000277 by kyj85＠etnews.com

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Dae-Young Park, a Master’s student of School of Co..

Dae-Young Park, a Master’s student (advisor: Prof. In-Young Ko) of School of Computing at KAIST received the ‘Best Paper Award – 1st Place’ for the paper titled, “Urban Event Detection from Spatio-temporal IoT Sensor Data Using Graph-Based Machine Learning” in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2022) held in Daegu, Korea from 17th to 20th of January, 2022. In this paper, to meet the challenge of having less accuracy of detecting urban events as the granularity of processing data in the spatial dimension becomes finer, Mr. Park proposes a novel graph-based approach that analyzes geo-spatial characteristics of urban sensor data over time to keep the accuracy of detecting urban anomaly in finer grained geo-spatial scales. Through experiments using real-world urban datasets, he shows that the proposed approach effectively addresses the challenge and outperforms the popular machine-learning-based urban event detection methods.

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「MICCAI 2025」Holing Medical Image Computing and In..

MICCAI 2025 General Co-Chairs: Professor Jinah Park, School of Computing, KAIST The 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2025), a major international conference in the fields of medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and medical robot intervention, has been confirmed to be hosted in Daejeon, Korea. The MICCAI International Academic Event is the largest and the most prominent international conference in the medical technology field, held annually by continental tour, and is held for the first time in Korea. About 2,000 domestic and foreign experts will give presentations and join the workshops, challenges, tutorials, and exhibitions about the latest research on medical imaging technologies that encompass medical image processing, artificial intelligence, medical robotics, telemedicine, computer-assisted diagnosis, and so on. In particular, a special program will be prepared which KAIST-related laboratories are participating in, in Daejeon, 2025. MICCAI 2025 Co-Chairs are Professor Jin-ah Park of School of Computing, KAIST, professor Polina Golland of College of Engineering, MIT, and professor Jong-hyo Kim of Medical School, Seoul National University. For successful hosting, the Korean Medical Societies Advisory Board is organized cooperating 4 major domestic societies: the Korean Society for Medical Imaging and Information Science, the Korean Society of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, the Korean Medical Robotics Society, and the Korean Society of Radiology. With full support from Daejeon Metropolitan City, about 40 researchers from 11 countries around the world are participating in the organizing committee and they plan to prepare international events under the themes of "From Concept to Clinical" and "Pan-Asian Connection". Related Articles : http://www.daejonilbo.com/news/newsitem.asp?pk_no=1500026 https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20211226020600063?section=news http://www.dailycc.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=669117

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SoC students Sungwon Han and Berhane Weldegebriel ..

KAIST SoC students Sungwon Han and Berhane Weldegebriel will be receiving an award from the AI X ART competition with their work ‘The sneakers universe.’ This work was jointly conducted with Prof. Meeyoung Cha, Dr. Sungkyu Park at the Institute of Basic Science, and Prof. Lev Manovich from the City University of New York (CUNY). The research team collects 23,492 sneakers images from the global online reselling shop and extracts latent design features from images via their novel contrastive learning algorithm. The overall appearance of sneakers can be seen at a glance by arranging the feature vectors in a two-dimensional space. Different from the original belief that sneakers are just a means of walking and most of them are in achromatic colors, the submitted work visualizes diverse designs and a variety of colors in sneakers. It shows that an individual's personality has become diversified these days. The National Science Museum will exhibit creative works using artificial intelligence technology under the theme of “Discovery of unfamiliar beauty through AI.” The winning works will be exhibited online from 11.19 (Fri) to 03.31 (Thu), 2022. AI X ART exhibition link: https://www.aixart.co.kr

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Donation of Elice, an alumni start-up company of S..

Elice, an alumni start-up company of the School of Computing at KAIST, with CEO Jaewon Kim, CPO Suin Kim, and CTO Jung Guk Park from the research group of Professor Alice Oh made a meaningful donation of 300 million won for the School of Computing at KAIST. Elice is taking the lead in software education innovation and effectively providing digital education to more than 100 universities, governments, and public institutions using educational practice platforms. Even when the global pandemic improves, online education will expand further, and Elice’s education system will have a positive influence on bridging the education gap.

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SoC students Eunji Lee and Sihyun Kim won the Pape..

Eunji Lee, a Master student of Data Science Laboratory (Advisor: Prof. Meeyoung Cha) at our School won the paper award at JKAIA 2021 with the paper ‘Classification of Goods Using Text Descriptions With Sentences Retrieval.’ This work was jointly conducted with Dr. Sundong Kim and an undergraduate intern Sihyun Kim at the Basic Science Institute. This research was collaborated with Korea Customs Service and developed an interpretable model which predicts Harmonized System (HS) code using import/export declarations worldwide. HS code assignment has traditionally been done by customs officers and this code determines the tax tariff on customs goods. The model has an accuracy of 95.5％ in the top-3 suggestions of 265 4-digit HS code and provides previous similar cases and key sentences from HS manual. The team expects this algorithm will assist customs officers in the future. JKAIA is a conference established for technology development and academic exchange in Artificial Intelligence related fields, and this year’s conference is held on Nov 4-5.

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Donation of Junha Park, an alumnus of SoC

Junha Park, an alumnus of the School of Computing at KAIST, and the CTO of Toss Bank, made a meaningful donation of 100 million won for the School of Computing at KAIST. He was a developer in various companies including NHN and Toss, and now he is the Head of Technology at Toss Bank. Interview video with Junha Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hBml5Vm5s

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Academic career of former SoC Theory PhD student t..

​ Sewon Park, recent Ph.D. graduate of Theoretical Computer Science at KAIST, has given both contributed and invited talks at KMS Fall Meeting, at AAAC'2021, and at international conference CCC'2021. He is now postdoc at Kyoto University. Sewon Park graduated this summer with a PhD from School of Computing. He was promptly invited to give a talk at the international conference https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/ccc2021/ He gave contributed talks at KMS Fall Meeting https://www.kms.or.kr/conference/abstract/search_view.html?num=7977&uid=74 And he gave a contributed talk at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation. http://aaac2021.ie.nthu.edu.tw/index.php/program/ Sewon has just completed quarantine in Japan and is now postdoc at Kyoto University in the group of Akitoshi Kawamura. https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kawamura/ken/

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ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional..

ACM ICFP 2021 (The 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming), which Prof. Sukyoung Ryu is the General Chair, will take place on August 22 to 27, 2021 online. ACM ICFP is a flagship conference in the field of programming languages hosted by ACM, and is one of the top conferences designated by the Korean Information Science Society. Detail information can be found in the following web page: https://icfp21.sigplan.org

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Dr. Sungjae Hwang was appointed as an assistant pr..

Sungjae Hwang will join the Department of Software at Sungkyunkwan University as an assistant professor from September 2021. Sungjae Hwang received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from KAIST under the guidance of Sukyoung Ryu. During his Ph.D. degree, he conducted Android security research and published papers at top-tier conferences in the software engineering field, such as ICSE and ASE. Recognitions of his research achievement, he received a best Ph.D. thesis award from KAIST and a Ph.D. scholarship from LG Electronics. Sungjae Hwang's excellent research achievements from KAIST indicate the outstanding research and education level of the School of Computing at KAIST.

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Professor Euijin Lee(School of Computing, KAIST) a..

Professor Ui-Jin Lee of School of Computing, KAIST has been appointed as the Program Chair for the ACM UbiComp (International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing), which will be held online from September 21-26, and will be in charge of the organization of the academic program. The ACM UbiComp conference is the international academic conference of the highest authority sharing researches on the design, development, demonstration, and understanding of ubiquitous computing systems for next-generation computing environments including mobile, wearables, Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual/augmented reality (AR/VR). This year, the 30th anniversary of the declaration of the vision of “Ubiquitous Computing”, in commemoration of Dr. Mark Weiser, a pioneer in the field, major scholars such as Professor Gregory Abowd of Northwestern University will discuss “the direction of future research”. Various academic exchange programs such as presentation of more than 230 papers, 38 posters/demos, 11 workshops, 4 tutorials, and doctoral symposiums will be held online. Professor Euijin Lee has published the largest number of papers as a Korean at the ACM UbiComp conference and was appointed as the chair of the program in 2021 based on his contribution to the ubiquitous computing field for a long time. UbiComp Conference website: https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2021/

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Urban green space brings happiness when money can＇..

This is an article of the research done by professor Mi-Young Cha of School of Computing, showing that the more developed economies, the greater effect of green spaces in the city on the happiness of citizens. Yonhap News (Kor.) : https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20210608046400063?input=1195m Edaily (Kor.) : https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=02200886629079752&mediaCodeNo=257&OutLnkChk=Y Science Daily : Urban green space affects citizens' happiness Phys.org : Urban green space brings happiness when money can’t buy it anymore The 2022 report published by UNICEF (titled "Places and Spaces: Environments and children's well-being") mentions the Urban Green Space Index presented by the research team as one of the important indicators affecting the happiness of children around the world. UNICEF report : https://www.unicef-irc.org/places-and-spaces

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Donation from Devsisters (11 alumni of School of C..

11 alumni of School of Computing (incoming class from 2006 to 2016), KAIST, currently working at Devsisters KAIST as engineers including CTO, participated in the donation for the expansion of the Computing Department building！ We sincerely are grateful for your heartwarming and welcome message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61Bbhq3vLU Rohjun Myung, 09, Cookie Run Plus Lead Seongjin Hong, 06, CTO Changwon Lee, 11, DevOps Engineer Junsu Lee, 15, Game Server Engineer Daeyoung Won, 10, DevOps Engineer Nakhyeon Choi, 11, Game Server Engineer Taehyeon Hwang, 14, Game Server Engineer Jaeui Ma, 12, Game server engineer Jae-young Hwang, 16, Game Server Engineer Seongyoon Jeong, 14, DevOps Engineer Junseong Lee, 10, DevOps Engineer “I had a prejudice that ‘donation’ was only for successful people who run their own business, but after I heard of it, I thought ‘Oh, there is no such thing that I couldn’t do.’. So I decided to participate in it without hesitation. "The optimal route is not the most successful route, but the one with enough rewards to the least risk taken. If you want something, I’d like to tell you to take the risk and to go grab it. Don’t worry about going off the optimal route” “I believe that you can become a leader who can change our society if you find what you want to do and do it joyfully and passionately.”

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