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Ewha Selected for the “2022 Artificial Intelligence Convergence and Innovation Talent Nurturing Project”

Ewha Selected for the “2022 Artificial Intelligence Convergence and Innovation Talent Nurturing Project” Ewha Womans University was selected for the “2022 Artificial Intelligence Convergence and Innovation Talent Nurturing Project” overseen by the Ministry of Science and ICT. As a result, Ewha will be funded with a total of about KRW 5 billion for the next four years, gathering momentum to foster artificial intelligence (AI) convergence talents and enhance research capabilities. (Right) Professor Byoungju Choi With this selection, Ewha will newly establish the “Artificial Intelligence Convergence major” within the Division of Artificial Intelligence and Software, the Graduate School, and recruit new students from the second semester of the 2022 academic year. The “Artificial Intelligence Convergence major” aims to foster talents who can converge AI, a key technology in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with various domains, and to secure AI convergence research capabilities. A total of 28 faculty members from the Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science & Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Cyber Security, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, Business Administration, Food Science & Biotechnology and Statistics majors, as well as a total of 34 companies consisting of 31 domestic and three overseas companies, along with Ewha Womans University Medical Center will participate in the education and research pertaining to the project. The Artificial Intelligence Convergence major will nurture field-specific talents with master’s and doctoral degrees in the two specialized fields of “AI-medicine/bio” and “AI convergence-based technology” with the view of fostering field-specific AI convergence talents that meet industry needs, and carry out 10 or more projects through industry-academia cooperation with companies for the next four years. Students will be provided with a specialized curriculum addressing the basics of AI technology, an AI convergence course, and in particular, project-oriented, on-the-job AI training jointly developed with businesses. The curriculum intends to provide core AI education and multidisciplinary convergence capabilities not only for students majoring in Computer Science & Engineering but also for other students with computer skills in various fields including engineering, medicine, business administration, life sciences, statistics, mathematics and humanities. These talents will advance into the field of AI-medicine/bio, such as AI-based precision medical platforms, digital healthcare and robotics-extended reality (XR) combination medical devices, and the field of AI convergence-based technology such as AI security, multimodal AI and AI systems. Ewha newly established the Artificial Intelligence major in the Division of AI Convergence this year and plans to additionally establish the Department of Data Science and the College of Artificial Intelligence next year, thereby presenting its vision for AI convergence talent development and convergence research. President Eun Mee Kim commented, “Women’s participation in AI R&D and applied areas is very important in a situation where there is a severe shortage of female AI developers that meet industry needs and a growing awareness of biases in data and thinking in the field,” and added, “With the Artificial Intelligence Convergence major at the forefront, Ewha will endeavor to become a focal point for expanding new AI convergence research and fostering outstanding talents in response to a wide range of academic disciplines and practical industry needs.” Principal Investigator and Professor Byoungju Choi of the Computer Science & Engineering major remarked, “The Artificial Intelligence Convergence major holds great significance in that it presents a foundation for non-computer majors to access AI convergence programs,” and added, “I think that this project will contribute to narrowing the gap between talents needed by industries and talents produced by academia.”
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- Date2022.05.17
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Ewha Law School Produces Nine Newly-appointed Public Prosecutors, Ranking in Top Place among Domestic Law Schools

Ewha Law School Produces Nine Newly-appointed Public Prosecutors, Ranking in Top Place among Domestic Law Schools Nine graduates from the 11th cohort of students at Ewha Law School were appointed as new public prosecutors in the “2022 Public Prosecutor Recruitment.” The total of nine appointees marks an all-time-high record, ranking Ewha Law School in first place among law schools nationwide. On May 2 (Mon.), the Ministry of Justice appointed 67 new public prosecutors among those who passed the 11th bar exam. After completing an education and training course necessary to fulfill their duties as prosecutors for about nine months at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, the newly-appointed prosecutors will be dispatched to prosecutors’ offices to perform their prosecutorial duties in earnest. Moreover, on May 1 (Sun.), two graduates from the 11th cohort of students at Ewha Law School were appointed as Supreme Court judicial researchers, and six graduates from the 10th and 11th cohorts of students at the law school were appointed as law clerks. Eight out of the 100 newly-appointed judicial researchers and law clerks who graduated from law schools this year hail from Ewha Law School, thereby ranking it in fifth place among law schools across the nation. In particular, this year marks the first time in which Ewha Law School produced judicial researchers, while also producing the highest number of judicial researchers among law schools. In addition, Ewha Law School also produced two out of the five newly-appointed judicial researchers who will serve at the Supreme Court. Ewha Womans University founded the Department of Law in 1950, the world’s first College of Law for women in 1996 and Ewha Law School in 2009, thereby positioning itself as Korea’s top female judicial training institute. Ewha’s College of Law has recorded many unprecedented “firsts” in the history of the legal profession in Korea, including producing Korea’s first female lawyer, constitutional scholar, constitutional judge and Minister of Government Legislation, and continued this successful tradition to date by producing the top scorers in the 1991 and 2013 judicial examinations, and ranking fourth in Korea for the number of those who passed the judicial examination between 2015 and 2017. This trend has continued even after the introduction of the law school system and conversion of the judicial examination into the bar exam. Ewha Law School has remained in the top class of 25 law schools nationwide for bar exam pass rates, and produced a total of 24 judges from 2015 to date, which is the third largest number among law schools in Korea.
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- Date2022.05.16
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Ewha Womans University Enters into a Partnership Agreement with Global Fashion Brand Christian Dior

Ewha Womans University Enters into a Partnership Agreement with Global Fashion Brand Christian Dior Ewha Womans University entered into a partnership agreement with global fashion brand Christian Dior to make joint efforts to foster future talents and achieve a sustainable society. Ewha is the first and only Korean university to sign an exclusive partnership with Dior. President Eun Mee Kim and Pietro Beccari, Chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture, held a signing ceremony for the new “Ewha-Dior Partnership” on April 29 (Fri.) at Ewha Archives. Ewha has been forming a partnership with the global company Dior since March, based on a shared understanding between the two organizations that they both intend to contribute to fostering female talents, promoting gender equality and building a sustainable society. Through the partnership, Ewha and Dior are set to cooperate in hosting events including a Dior fashion show and maintain their cooperative relations in various fields, including student engagement, industry-academia cooperation and scholarship donations. Dior plans to provide Ewha students with scholarships, field training programs and hiring programs through retail management programs and mentoring programs, thereby creating various opportunities for student engagement. (Left) © Lee Hyun Jun | (Center) © Choi Na Rang As part of this partnership and the first event of its kind to be held in Korea, the “Dior Fall 2022 Show” at Ewha presented a unique stage on April 30 (Sat.) in the Ewha Campus Complex (ECC) building, a landmark facility on the Ewha campus that was designed by Dominique Perrault of France, who is renowned as one of the world’s top three architects. Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri organized the show and presented a collection that highlighted the image of young, pioneering women. Ewha undergraduates and graduate students with prior experience as fashion show dressers participated in the show as backstage dressers and experienced the global stage. In addition, this event was linked to students’ learning and experience by allowing backstage props used in the event and materials used for setting the stage to be used again in the exhibitions and classes for Ewha undergraduates in the Fashion Design and Sculpture majors. Meanwhile, a preview was also livestreamed for Ewha students only at the Welch-Ryang Auditorium. While the COVID-19 situation had forced most university events to be held online in a non-face-to-face format, the auditorium resounded with the enthusiasm of Ewha students for the first time in two years after sitting empty throughout the pandemic. On May 1 (Sun.), a special talk between President Eun Mee Kim and Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri was held at the Emerson Chapel and attended by 220 Ewha students. This talk was arranged as an opportunity for the two female leaders to share the importance and value of women’s empowerment and leadership and to present advice and knowhow to Ewha students who will grow into future leaders. Starting with the introduction of the background of the Ewha-Dior Partnership, Maria Grazia Chiuri and President Kim discussed various topics, including women’s leadership and sustainability in the fashion industry. Maria Grazia emphasized that all women have different personalities and voices, and President Kim also actively empathized with her opinion, explaining the meaning of respect for individual women as conveyed by the expression “Womans” in the English name of Ewha Womans University. Through the new agreement, Ewha and Dior will maintain an ongoing partnership and engage in mutual exchanges through student engagement, industry-academia cooperation and scholarship donations.
- No.639
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- Date2022.05.05
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Ewha Ranks First among Korean Universities for Gender Equality in the “THE World University Rankings”...

Ewha Ranks First among Korean Universities for Gender Equality in the “THE World University Rankings” for Three Consecutive Years Ewha ranked first among Korean universities for three consecutive years in the “Gender Equality” category of the “THE World University Rankings” published by the Times Higher Education (THE), a British publication of world university rankings. The school also ranked third in Korea for “No Poverty” and “Good Health and Well-Being,” thereby demonstrating Ewha’s role as an education platform that contributes to a sustainable society. The THE World University Rankings, which are considered to be among the world’s top three university rankings alongside the QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), launched the THE Impact Rankings in 2019. The Impact Rankings assess the efforts made by universities toward the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the social responsibilities of universities comprising key evaluation criteria. As Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance is becoming a salient topic around the world, the THE Impact Rankings are gaining attention as the first evaluation in the world to assess universities’ contribution to sustainable global development in areas such as climate change, gender equality, and humanity’s sustainable growth and well-being. Ewha has cemented its place as a leading institution of female education by participating in the world university impact rankings this year as well as last year and retaining the first place among Korean universities for gender equality for three consecutive years. The “Gender Equality” category assesses the outcomes of research on gender equality, the ratio of female executives and the anti-discrimination policy as a measure to understand universities’ social responsibility for achieving a gender-equal society. Since its foundation in 1886 as Korea’s first modern education institution for women, the school has grown into a world-class female university with approximately 25,000 students and about 1,000 faculty members, and contributed to gender equality by nurturing talented women. Moreover, Ewha received an excellent evaluation in the “Outreach” area for financial and academic support for low-income students and poverty alleviation, ranked 57th globally and third in Korea in the “No Poverty” category, and third in Korea in “Good Health and Well-Being.” The excellent grades in the THE World University Impact Rankings demonstrate that Ewha, beyond solely focusing on high-quality research and education, has made comprehensive efforts to better humanity and create a sustainable future for the world to fulfill its social responsibilities as an institution of higher education. Under the vision of “A Creative and Innovative Platform Leading to a Sustainable Society,” Ewha will continue to devote itself toward realizing its spirit of service and sharing through not only extraordinary research achievements but also its social contributions toward gender equality, the welfare of low-income students, job creation and global partnerships.
- No.637
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- Date2022.05.04
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President Eun Mee Kim Delivers a Special Guest Lecture at Harvard University and Brown University in the United States

President Eun Mee Kim Delivers a Special Guest Lecture at Harvard University and Brown University in the United States President Eun Mee Kim delivered a special lecture at prestigious universities in the United States including Harvard University and Brown University, and met with the presidents of the universities to exchange opinions on school development and improved exchanges. President Eun Mee Kim visited the northeastern United States including Boston from April 20 (Wed.) to 28 (Thu.) and met in person with the presidents and key figures of Harvard University, Brown University and Wellesley College to discuss ways to ensure the growth of both universities and strengthen mutual exchanges. In addition, she delivered a special lecture on the theme of “Higher Education in South Korea in the Era of the Digital Transformation and the Pandemic” at Harvard University and another lecture on the theme of “Sustainable Development in the Era of COVID and Digital Transformation” at Brown University. (left) President Eun Mee Kim of Ewha Womans University, President Lawrence Bacow of Harvard University First, President Kim had a meeting with President Lawrence Bacow of Harvard University on April 20 (Wed.) and discussed ways to ensure the mutual growth and substantive cooperation between Ewha and Harvard. As Harvard’s sole partner university in Korea for its international exchange program, Ewha has jointly operated the Ewha-Harvard Summer School since 2006 and the Ewha-HCAP (Harvard College in Asia Program) since 2017 with Harvard to promote the excellence of Korean culture and cooperate with Harvard in wide-ranging academic fields including Korean politics, economy, education and culture. On the next day, April 21 (Thu.), President Kim gave a special lecture on the theme of “Higher Education in South Korea in the Era of the Digital Transformation and the Pandemic” following an invitation from the Korea Institute at Harvard University. In her lecture, she highlighted that universities across the world are being impacted by global megatrends such as digital transformation, hyper-globalization, alternative education platforms such as Minerva University and the COVID-19 pandemic, and commented on how Korean universities will change in the face of another challenge consisting of the decline of the school-age population. As the leader of Ewha Womans University, the largest higher education institution for women possibly in the world, President Kim explained how such trends affected higher education in Korea and stressed that universities must establish innovative education platforms that are optimized for digital environments and provide “student-centered education” in a hyper-connected society. Next, on April 23 (Sat.), President Kim met with Ewha alumnae living in Boston. The meeting hosted by the Ewha Womans University Alumnae Association of Boston (President: Kim Ji-yeong) was attended by a total of 15 alumnae, who gathered to listen to the president’s vision for Ewha’s future direction and participate in a Q&A session. Upon the president’s visit, the alumnae association held a fundraising event and donated the raised fund to the alma mater for the “Ewha 2030+ Development Fund.” President Paula Johnson of Wellesley College, President Eun Mee Kim of Ewha Womans University President Eun Mee Kim then visited Wellesley College and had a meeting with President Paula Johnson. The two presidents of education institutions that share the common goal of women’s higher education in wide-ranging fields sought ways to participate and cooperate in joint research and student exchanges in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), artificial intelligence (AI), medicine, R&D and women’s studies. (left) President Eun Mee Kim of Ewha Womans University, President Christina Paxson of Brown University In addition, President Kim visited Brown University and met President Christina Paxson. Brown University is the alma mater of President Eun Mee Kim, where she received master’s and doctoral degrees in Sociology. The two presidents exchanged their opinions on leadership to guide university communities and plans to ensure the further growth of their respective schools. In addition, President Kim was invited as a guest lecturer for the “Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture Series” and gave a special lecture on the theme of “Sustainable Development in the Era of COVID and Digital Transformation.” The lecture was hosted by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, a think tank that addresses various challenges and issues of the 21st century such as poverty, inequality and natural disasters. It was originally established in 1981 with the mission of realizing justice and world peace and has since become the most prestigious U.S. institute for international and public affairs. In this lecture, President Kim discussed how digital transformation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 have fundamentally influenced our society, and suggested the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international development cooperation as alternatives in response to issues in developing countries, rising inequality and deterioration of women’s rights.
- No.635
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- Date2022.04.29
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Holding the Unveiling Ceremony for the Refurbished Ewha Donors Wall

Holding the Unveiling Ceremony for the Refurbished Ewha Donors Wall Ewha refurbished the “Ewha Donors Wall” to honor the spirit of sharing shown by donors and held the unveiling ceremony for the refurbishment on April 13 (Wed.). The Ewha Donors Wall in the Multipurpose Hall on the fourth basement floor of the ECC is a commemorative space reserved for documenting all donors who contributed to Ewha’s growth in one place. At the unveiling ceremony for the refurbishment of the Ewha Donors Wall, nine years after it was first established in 2013, the attendance of around 50 guests including Board of Trustees Chairperson Chang Myong-sue, key administrative faculty members including President Eun Mee Kim and major donors recently recorded on the Analogue Wall added further eminence to the occasion. President Eun Mee Kim remarked in her congratulatory address, “The Ewha Donors Wall was designed in a three-dimensional form utilizing the ceiling, and it has now been reborn as a beautiful sculpture symbolizing the growth of meaningful donations and the spirit of Ewha. I expect that the introduction of a donation kiosk will contribute to promoting a new culture of giving,” and expressed her gratitude by saying, “I am very grateful for your prayers and support for today’s Ewha, and I pledge to dedicate my utmost efforts to build a proud Ewha that all of our donors can feel a sense of reward and pride as members of the Ewha community, by growing Ewha into an even more profound and outstanding cradle for women’s education.” The Office of University Relations and Development promoted this project to shed new light on the spirit of sharing and the culture of giving by strengthening the content and function of the Ewha Donors Wall, which was newly reborn through the refurbishment including a change of Digital Wall content, expansion of Analogue Wall space and installation of a donation kiosk with a credit card payment function. Vice President Hye Sun Lee of the Office of University Relations and Development commented, “I hope that the refurbishment of the Ewha Donors Wall after nine years since its opening will provide a space to honor our donors and remind us of the meaning of sharing,” and added, “In addition, I would like a new culture of giving to blossom within Ewha and the joy of giving to be spread among many as opportunities to participate in donations are expanded through the new donation kiosk with a credit card payment function.”
- No.633
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- Date2022.04.15
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Ewha’s Education and Learning Environment Renewed by Smart Learning Spaces

Ewha’s Education and Learning Environment Renewed by Smart Learning Spaces Spurring the establishment of an innovative education platform in response to digital transformation Building active and flexible learning spaces and improving the safety and convenience of the library infrastructure Ewha is spurring the establishment of an innovative education platform in response to digital transformation, including the development of cutting-edge curricula and the establishment of a system for supporting convergent hybrid teaching and learning. The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning established “THE BEST,” the Ewha-specific education model, and is conducting a trial operation of 230 new subjects in the first semester of the 2022 academic year. In addition, it is continuously promoting projects to improve the educational environment including the establishment of active learning classrooms that effectively support online and offline convergent classes, in addition to learner-centered flexible spaces. First, the Active Learning Classroom (ALC) is a changeable unit where a wide range of learning experiences and knowledge construction driven by learners come true. In particular, the Center focused on the effective convergence of online and offline learning, convergence of conceptual and application learning and more to support THE BEST classes. This semester, three ALC lecture rooms and seven changeable lecture rooms have opened, in addition to the upgrading of two existing ALC lecture rooms, thereby creating an even smarter learning environment. Intended to be used in various ways according to learners’ goals and needs, flexible learning spaces were newly opened this semester in three buildings including Ewha-Shinsegae Building, Human Ecology Building (Morris Hall) and Education Building B. So far, the demand for flexible learning spaces has been continuously on the rise. In particular, as contact and non-contact classes have been selectively conducted in the recent few years due to the continued pandemic, the need for spaces to participate in non-contact classes on campus has been raised continuously. Reflecting this demand, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning has newly established flexible learning spaces each year since 2019. Considering that the teaching and learning paradigm is shifting to a learner-centered approach, the Center plans to continue expanding the establishment of active learning classrooms in the future based on a demand survey for each college and the potential decision to expand convergence classes. In addition, the Office of Information and Communications refurbished the Open Computer Lab on the second basement floor of the ECC and reorganized it to be available as an online learning space. The University Library expanded and improved complex spaces for research and learning in the stacks and underwent refurbishment as a space equipped with an advanced, future-oriented educational environment. First, it furnished its reading rooms with various seats, such as standalone carrels, smart hubs and smart lounge sofas, which ensure sufficient distance between users and allow individual study and media use. It also installed cubicles in the viewing areas and large open tables around the bookstacks to create spaces for studying and learning as well as collaborative work and communication without being disturbed by others. In addition, by arranging various types of seats for reading around the bookstacks, it has established an environment that allows for the combined use of online and offline data and easy information searches. The Library has continuously surveyed user satisfaction and further requirements for its spaces and plans to keep collecting feedback from different users and reflect such opinions in providing better services and making further improvements to the spaces.
- No.631
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- Date2022.04.12
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Professor Sang Won Kang Attracts an Investment of KRW 18 Billion Following the Development of a New Drug...

Professor Sang Won Kang Attracts an Investment of KRW 18 Billion Following the Development of a New Drug to Treat Vascular Diseases Faculty start-up company “Vasthera” attracted an additional investment of KRW 18 billion, two years after receiving KRW 5.5 billion in investment following the development of a new drug to treat vascular diseases. “Vasthera” is a biotechnology company that aims to develop first-in-class new drugs for cardiovascular diseases and cancers. It was established in February 2018 as an Ewha faculty start-up company, as Professor Sang Won Kang of the Department of Life Sciences transferred a patent based on the results of research on redox signaling in the field of therapeutics for vascular diseases and cancers. Vasthera attracted an investment worth KRW 18 billion in late February 2021. Existing investors ID Ventures, SJ Investment Partners and Medytox Venture Investment also chose to participate in the follow-up investment, while UTC Investment, Medici Investment, Shinhan Venture Investment, Partners Investment and HG Initiative/Daesung Venture Capital joined the venture as new investors. This marks a significant achievement two years after the attraction of the initial investment worth KRW 5.5 billion, thereby reaching a cumulative investment of KRW 23.2 billion so far. With this new investment, Vasthera has gained a foothold for conducting a clinical trial on new drug candidates for pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH) and a pre-clinical study on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The research team led by Professor Sang Won Kang had previously identified the role of redox signaling in certain diseases and conducted research on the potential of targeted therapeutics. The research team examined peroxiredoxin-2, an essential antioxidant enzyme, as a targeted drug for redox signaling. The team had already published the study outcome that peroxiredoxin-2 regulated platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signaling and vascular remodeling in Nature in 2005, and had since published study results that a peroxiredoxin-2 activity mimetic could normalize vascular function in academic journals in 2011 and 2013. Professor Sang Won Kang explained, “Redox signaling is a new mechanism that proves the fact that reactive oxygen species (ROS) are by-products of normal cell activity, which is a relatively less well-understood mechanism that was only discovered around 20 years ago,” and added, “As a leading company in developing new drugs targeting signaling pathways, Vasthera found that the loss of function in enzymes related to redox signaling may cause vascular diseases and cancers, and that the recovery of the lost function can be a treatment option.” The research team discovered a substance that accurately imitates peroxiredoxin-2 activity among natural substances and succeeded in developing a new drug named VTA-04, which newly synthesizes the component responsible for activity. The first target disease to be treated by VTA-04 was determined as PAH, a rare vascular disease, and the targets are expanding to cancers and brain disorders. The therapeutic developed through this study is different from existing therapeutics in that it was developed to target blood vessels from the beginning. The team will complete the development of the dosage form of the new PAH drug VTA-04 for clinical use within the first half of this year, and plans to expand the treatment targets to TNBC among malignant tumors, brain disorders and more in the future.
- No.629
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- Date2022.04.07
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Undergraduate Students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Publish a Research Paper in an SCI...

Undergraduate Students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Publish a Research Paper in an SCI-grade Journal Su-ji Yoon and Hee-jin Park Su-ji Yoon and Hee-jin Park, undergraduate students of the ELTEC College of Engineering majoring in Computer Science and Engineering in the incoming class of 2019, conducted research on drastically reducing DRAM memory consumption in IoT (Internet-of-Things) systems, and published the paper as co-first authors in IEEE Access, a major open access journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. As the size of data in IoT environments has rapidly increased in recent years, DRAM usage is also increasing alongside a subsequent leap in battery consumption. Real-time systems such as IoT systems are “mission-critical” systems in which it is essential to complete tasks within a fixed time without fail. Since all tasks in such systems reside on the memory, such systems face the problem of high memory consumption because they are unable to use the swapping method to temporarily retain tasks in storage as with general-purpose computer systems. The undergraduate research team optimized the swap ratio for each task and reduced DRAM usage by 34 percent by employing evolutionary computation, a kind of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In addition, the team succeeded in saving battery consumption by 31 percent through the combination of memory-swapping technology and CPU voltage scaling technology. While these power-saving technologies generally have the side effect of slowing down task execution, the research team achieved an optimal outcome that met the deadline for all tasks and maximize the power-saving effect through the accurate modeling of the worst-case execution time. The pertinent research paper, titled “Supporting Swap in Real-Time Task Scheduling for Unified Power-Saving in CPU and Memory,” is the outcome of joint research by the two undergraduates with Research Professor Kyungwoon Cho (third author) and Professor Hyokyung Bahn (corresponding author) during their research internship period for undergraduate students at the Embedded Software Research Center, which marks a meaningful demonstration of the outstanding capabilities of Ewha undergraduates in the Computer Science and Engineering major. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering helps undergraduates to foster their research capabilities by participating in wide-ranging academic research activities through a research internship program and achieve academic accomplishments. Su-ji Yoon and Hee-jin Park, the co-first authors, expressed their feelings about participating in the program, commenting, “We believe we were able to produce positive results in a short period of time by building upon open-source code at the research center, rather than writing the source code required for our experiments from scratch.” Professor Hyokyung Bahn, who supervised the research as a corresponding author, remarked, “As recent studies in computer science have been conducted using open-source software, the source code for such studies are being made available to the public, rather than only publishing their outcomes in academic papers. This is increasingly cutting down on the time required for creative undergraduate students to produce new results based on existing studies,” and added, “The research outcome of these students was also published in open source, which I hope will challenge other students to achieve even better research outcomes.”
- No.627
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- Date2022.03.30
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Intramural Distinguished Professor, Ewha Fellows and Emerging Ewha Fellow were Selected

Intramural Distinguished Professor, Ewha Fellows and Emerging Ewha Fellow were Selected As Ewha is concentrating efforts on enhancing its status as a research-oriented university, the faculty positions of Intramural Distinguished Professor, Ewha Fellows and Emerging Ewha Fellow were selected to take the lead in achieving notable outcomes on an international scale. Ewha has selected Ewha faculty members who are elevating the prestige of Ewha through vigorous research activities and outstanding achievements in order to further support research and academic activities at Ehwa. This year, Ewha designated Professor Goo Taeg Oh at the Department of Life Science as an Intramural Distinguished Professor, Professor Ick-Joong Chung at the Department of Social Welfare, Professor Dong Ha Kim at the Division of Chemistry & Nano Science, and Professor Ahjeong Son at the Division of Environmental Science & Engineering as Ewha Fellows, and Professor Tae-Jin Song at the Department of Medicine as an Emerging Ewha Fellow. (From left) Distinguished Professor Goo Taeg Oh, Ewha Fellows Professors Ick-Joong Chung, Dong Ha Kim and Ahjeong Son, and Emerging Ewha Fellow Professor Tae-Jin Song Under the vision of “A Creative and Innovative Platform Leading to a Sustainable Society,” Ewha launched the Headquarters for R&D General Planning in 2021 with the aim to build an ecosystem to create world-class outcomes, and conducted various projects to strengthen Ewha’s research competitiveness, such as selecting the Frontier 10-10 Project. This year, Ewha plans to create an optimal environment for its members to immerse themselves in education and research by focusing on the establishment of a support system for sustainable creative research, such as expansion of the compensation system for excellent research faculty, establishment of an immersive research environment tailored to academic fields and research characteristics, expansion of support to facilitate research activities by the next generation of academics, etc.
- No.625
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- Date2022.03.28
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