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Prof. Ryu was awarded by Ministry of Science and ICT.

Dr. Sungjae Hwang was appointed as an assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University

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.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu’s research team won ACM Distinguished Paper Award

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was appointed as an editorial board member of IEEE TSE

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu has been appointed as an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) starting from April 2021. TSE is the top journal in software engineering, and one of two SCI journals in software engineering, along with ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). TSE has an impact factor of 6.11 in JCR 2019 and is currently ranked at the 6th place by Google Scholar among the Software Systems conferences and journals.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was appointed as the head of the School of Computing

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was appointed as the head of the School of Computing. Her term of office is five years from March 2021. She expressed her ambition to "provide an opportunity for the School of Computing to make a new leap forward with transparent and inclusive leadership through communication and solidarity."

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won International Cooperation Award

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was appointed as the general chair of ACM SIGPLAN ICFP 2021

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was appointed as the general chair of ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2021.

ICFP is one of the top conferences in the field of programming languages ​​with a history of 25 years, and is the CORE A＊conference. Prof. Ryu will be in charge of the 26th ICFP conference held in August next year, and the conference will be held either at KAIST or online according to the situation of COVID-19.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu’s research team won ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in IEEE/ACM ASE 2020

Dr. Sungho Lee was appointed as an assistant professor at Chungnam National Unversity

Dr. Sungho Lee was appointed as an assistant professor of the computer science department at Chungnam National University in September 2020. With the research topics related to programming analysis, he received a Ph.D. from Prof. Sukyoung Ryu in 2020 and he’s been working as a visiting faculty researcher at Google.

Dr. Lee had published many papers in top international conferences including ICSE, ASE, ISSTA, and he was awarded the 2020 Best Paper Award in dept. of Computer Science at KAIST, 2018 OOPSLA Distinguished Artifact Evaluation Committee, 2017 NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award, as well as four times of Best Teaching Assistant Award.

Jaemin Hong was selected as a recipient of the Kwanjeong Scholarship

Jaemin Hong, a master's student, was selected as a scholarship recipient of the 2020 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.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was interviewed by Electronic Times

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was interviewed by Electronic Times about new type systems of the Fortress and Scala programming languages and proofs for their mathematical property. The research was done by her research team and Guy L. Steele Jr., who is well-known as a co-inventor of the Java programming language, at Oracle Research in USA.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won the Best Lecture Award

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was interviewed by Electronic Times

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu's research team's paper was accepted at ACM/IEEE ICSE 2019

The paper “Towards Understanding and Reasoning about Android Interoperations” written by Ph.D. candidate Sora Bae, Ph.D. candidate Sungho Lee, and Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was accepted at ACM/IEEE ICSE 2019, one of the most prestigious conferences in software (SW) engineering.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu's research team's paper was accepted at ACM SIGPLAN POPL 2019

Jaemin Hong won the second prize in Student Research Competition at APLAS 2018

Sungho Lee won the Distinguished Artifact Evaluation Committee Member Award at OOPSLA 2018

APLAS 2018 was chaired by Prof. Sukyoung Ryu with the support of KAIST

Joonyoung Park was selected for NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu delivered a keynote speech at an international conference, <Programming> 2018

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was interviewed by Electronic Times

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu was interviewed by Electronic Times about HybriDroid, the world's first developed flaw detection technology for JavaScript used in Android that simultaneously finds errors and security vulnerabilities. The research was done by Sungho Lee and Prof. Ryu at KAIST and Julian Dolby at IBM Research.

Sungho Lee was selected for NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship

Last September, Sungho Lee was selected for NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship. He decided to donate a portion of his scholarship to the School of Computing, KAIST.

NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship program is a program that selects Ph.D. student who submitted the first paper to the top-tier conference/journal of each computing field and pays scholarships. Naver selected 8 students in 2015, 14 in 2016, and 11 in 2017, and paid a total of 185 million won to the selected students.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu's research team's papers were accepted at ACM/IEEE ASE three years in a row

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won the Best Lecture Award

Changhee Park was selected for NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship

Changhee Park was selected for NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship.

NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship program is a program that selects Ph.D. student who submitted the first paper to the top-tier conference/journal of each computing field and pays scholarships. Naver selected 8 students in 2015 and 14 students in 2016.

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu's research team won Best Artifact Award at ECOOP 2015

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won Google Faculty Research Award

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won the Google Faculty Research Award for "SAFE WApp: Scalable Analysis Framework for ECMAScript in Web Applications."

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won the Best Lecture Award

Prof. Sukyoung Ryu won the Best Lecture Award in the commemoration of the 41th anniversary of KAIST.