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·         Professor Shin Hyun-chul (School of Semiconductor System Engineering) Elected as the 8th President of the Institute of Semiconductor Engineers

Professor Shin Hyun-chul (School of Semiconductor System Engineering) of our university was elected as the 8th President of the Institute of Semiconductor Engineers at its General Assembly held on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at the Grand InterContinental Parnas Hotel in Gangnam, Seoul.

Professor Shin earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering from KAIST. He has served as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, a researcher at the Daimler-Benz Research Institute in Germany, a researcher in the System LSI Division at Samsung Electronics, and a semiconductor design researcher at Qualcomm in the United States. Since 2003, he has been a professor at our university.

Professor Shin has served as a technical committee member for renowned international semiconductor design conferences such as IEEE ISSCC, A-SSCC, and the VLSI Symposium. He has also held positions as the Conference Chair and Program Chair of the International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC). In 2010, he was selected as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is currently serving as the Dean of the College of Electronics and Information Engineering. The new president will serve a one-year term beginning the first of the following month.

Additionally, the Institute of Semiconductor Engineers has elected Park Yong-in, President of Samsung Electronics (Head of the System LSI Division), as Senior Vice President, and Professors Kim Kyung-gi of Daegu University and Kim Jong-sun of Hongik University as Vice Presidents. Professor Shin stated that, together with the newly appointed executive team, he will do his utmost to ensure that the Institute of Semiconductor Engineers contributes to the advancement of South Korea's semiconductor industry and the promotion of academic research.