Professor Yoon Young Kim awarded in the 2017 second semester Academic Research Award

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10 awarded in the 2017 second semester Academic Research Award Seoul National University

2017 second semester Academic Research Award 
 

Seoul National University (President Sung Nak-in) selected and presented 10 professors who have accomplished outstanding research through creative and vigorous research activities as the winners of the '2017 Academic Research Award'. Especially since this year, we have expanded the number of award from once a year to once per semester (twice a year) in order to encourage the research activities of excellent researchers and to increase opportunities for knowledge sharing.

4 of the awardees come from the humanities and social sciences, 3 from science and engineering sciences, and 3 medicinal science sciences.

-  Professor Ko Hee Jeong (41) Linguistics, College of Humanities

- Professor Park Byung-wook (56) Department of Statistics, College of Natural Science

- Professor Yoon Young Kim (58) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

- Professor Paik Nam chon (55) College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Plant Production Science

- Professor Kim, Jung-hee (60) Department of Western Painting, College of Fine Arts

- Professor Jeewoo Lee (57) Professor of Pharmacy College of Pharmacy

- Professor Dong-Wan Kim (48), Department of Medicine

- Professor Hwang Soon-jung (58) Professor of Dentistry College of Dentistry

- Professor Choi, Jin nam (50) Professor of Business Administration Graduate School

-  Professor Jinsu Yune (62) Professor of Law School

The academic research award was enacted in 2008 in order to inspire enthusiasm in professors and to enhance the research competitiveness of Seoul National University. This semester, 29 excellent professors were nominated and selected the final 10 candidates through a two-step rigorous screening. Looking at the merit of the winners,

- Professor Ko Hee Jeong is in charge of syntactic research and education. Her research include minimal sentence theory and psychological linguistics, principles of sentence structure, word order change phenomenon, language acquisition and universal grammar. In recognition of his academic accomplishments, she published Edges in Syntax, a book published by Oxford University Press in England in 2014.

-Professor Park Byoung-Wook conducted original research in the field of statistical function estimation and has been recognized as a world-leading researcher of nonparametric structural models. In addition to giving lectures at the 9th World Conference on Probability Statistics in 2016, He was also invited as a guest speaker at the Mathematicians Conference. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the world's most prestigious statistical journals such as the Annals of Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the co-editor of the International Journal of Statistics and Data Analysis.

- Professor Yoon Young Kim has achieved outstanding research achievements in mechanics-based design and optimization. He has developed an automatic design methodology that optimally satisfies various design requirements that conflict with the mechanical design that has been mainly trial and error based on the mechanical principles. He has developed a design methodology for the mechanics and transducers that require high level of niche techniques. It was applied for the first time in the world. Also, he is the co-chairman of the Asia Society for Optimal Design and the vice-chairman of the World Optimal Design Society in recognition of his innovative research achievements.

- Professor Nam-chon Paek is a professor at the Department of Agricultural and Forestry. He has been studying the regulation of flowering time, the development of chloroplast, chloroplast biosynthesis and degradation regulation, and the function of genes involved in poor environmental stress and aging of the rice plant.

In particular, he researches in identifying several genes that regulate plants' resistance to sudden drought caused by climate change. Also, he has published a number of papers in the International Excellent Plant Science Journal.

- Professor Kim, Jung-Hee has contributed to the introduction of the art history method of iconographic hermeneutics by linking the Western and Korean arts in post modern times to society and made a new technique method of Korean art history. The book, which studies the relationship between arts support organizations and policies in the UK and art, is the first text in this field. She has been evaluated as a scholar who has extended dozens of papers on art exhibition and ideology, art criticism, feminism, "Korean castle" aesthetics, film and art, and Korean sculpture. In 2016, she wrote the 70th anniversary of the Seoul National University of Fine Arts and also organized the exhibition.

- Professor Jeewoo Lee has been working on the development of new medicines for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and neuropathic pain, a representative refractory disease. As a result of active research activities, he has published more than 160 SCI international papers, and developed a candidate substance for unique incurable disease treatment and transferred a number of technologies to multinational pharmaceutical companies. This achievement has been recognized for the first time in Korea and has been actively working for the first time in the world as the editorial committee member of the world famous Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry and Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters as well.

- Professor Dong-Wan Kim has been engaged in research to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy for lung cancer. He has contributed greatly to the survival rate and quality of life of patients with lung cancer through excellent research achievements in target treatment and immunotherapy clinical trials. He has published numerous papers in the leading academic journals such as New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet.

- Professor Hwang Soon-jung is in charge of oral and maxillofacial surgery. His research mainly include surgical treatment of jaw facial deformity, jaw deformity and jaw joint disease, and tissue regeneration of alveolar bone and jaw. he  has greatly contributed to the tissue engineering rehabilitation of jaws at home and abroad. The academic results on bone regeneration using physical stimulation including progressive jaw joint absorption and electrical stimulation are internationally recognized.

- Professor Choi, Jin nam not only applies the psychological perspective  to the individual but also to the whole group and organization. On the contrary, he uses the sociological concepts used in the organization or group to understand the individual behavior, contributing to international academia by systematically conducting research. A total of 66 papers have been published in SSCI-class international journals including 21 scholarly papers published in the most authoritative international journals over the past decade. The academic achievements have been recognized internationally and he is currently the assistant deputy editor in the Journal of Organizational Behavior as well as 3 other organizations.

- Professor Jinsu Yune has been devoted to the study of civil law (property law and family law). In particular, he wrote a number of papers on the relationship between the Constitution and civil law, paying a great deal of attention to the Constitution, and these studies have influenced the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. He also participated in legislative work several times, contributing to the improvement of the adoption system and the improvement of the custody system.

The awards ceremony was held at Seoul National University's Learning and Development Center unit 320, Monday, November 20 at 3:00 pm, and the winners will hold a special lecture during November and December.

Check article http://snu.ac.kr/press-releases?bm=v&bbsidx=124727

- Award photos

▲ From left President Sung Nak-in, Professor Yoon Young Kim


- Congratulatory Picture


▲ From left: Professor Do-Nyun Kim, Professor Sang Joon Shin, Professor  Kunwoo Lee, Professor Char Kookheon (Dean of College of Engineering), Professor Yoon Young Kim, Professor Frank Chongwoo Park, Professor Maeng Hyo Cho 

- Congratulatory picture 2  Integrated Design and Analysis of Multiphysics Systems Laboratory