Awards

National competitions, academic honors, and grand prizes, ordered by impact.

Joint 1st Place — 23rd AAM Tech Challenge (KASA) (link) 1st Place
Sep 2025
Joint 1st Place at the 23rd AAM (Advanced Air Mobility) Tech Challenge, hosted by the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA).
DroneVTOLSearch & RescueKASA
Best Paper Award — IEIE 2025 Summer Conference (link) Best Paper
Jun 2025
Best Paper Award at the IEIE 2025 Summer Conference for "LiTE ViT: Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Token Efficient Vision Transformer."
PaperSpiking Neural Networks
NEXT Generation Engineering Researcher (IPESK) (link) National Honor
Sep 2025
Selected as a NEXT Generation Engineering Researcher by IPESK (Institute for Promotion of Engineering Science of Korea).
AwardResearch
Grand Prize (Governor's Award) — World Robo Festa 2025 (link) Grand Prize
Jun 2025
Grand Prize (Governor's Award) at World Robo Festa 2025, the International Robotics Festival, with XYZ Innovation.
Robotics3D VisionGrand Prize
Seoul Mayor's Award — Drone Utilization Competition 1st Place
Dec 2024
1st Place (Seoul Mayor's Award) at the Seoul Drone Utilization Competition.
Drone1st Place
Grand Prize (Governor's Award) — Jeju Satellite Data Challenge (link) Grand Prize
Sep 2024
Grand Prize (Governor's Award) at the Jeju Satellite Data Challenge for ML-based algal bloom detection (GreenWave).
Remote SensingSatelliteGrand Prize
Excellence Prize — Asan Nanum Foundation Startup Competition Excellence
Oct 2024
Excellence Prize at the Asan Nanum Foundation Startup Competition.
StartupEntrepreneurship

Not gonna lie, doing projects is my hobby, so the awards kind of piled up. From a Seoul Mayor's Prize to Governor's Prizes, a little bit of everything.

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