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An Interview with President Wonki Min and Man-ki Lee, the Vice President of Uway Educational Assessment Research Institute, has been uploaded on Uway Youtube Channel. President Wonki Min shared his views on the value of SUNY Korea and thoughts about future education.       *Please check out the details on Uway YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbb7QME6LJM  

SUNY Korea FIT Professor Bonkuk Koo recently shared his advice for fashion-studying students during a press interview.   He emphasized the continuous efforts to participate in related contests and exhibitions, as well as having internship experiences in the journey of pursuing a career in the fashion field.   Most of all, the importance of “passion” was highlighted for success in one's career.   *Related articles   http://www.newsbrite.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=147792   http://www.weeklytoday.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=359591   http://www.weeklytoday.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=368771

An interview with President Wonki Min by UNN (University News Network) has been uploaded on UNN TV Youtube Channel. President Wonki Min shared his insightful views about the current education system and the prospect of SUNY Korea as an American University in Songdo.   *Check out the video in the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0qTvsT7xE&t=861s *UNN news article: https://news.unn.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=509475

SUNY Korea start-up company Zero Class Lab was selected as one of the student start-up companies for “2020 promising start-up business 300” hosted by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).   The technology of Zero Class Lab covers the automated management of the smart inventory system which allows for developing, manufacturing and producing goods using robotics, computer vision, machine learning and AI. The technology has been upgraded from the former volume measurement program to an advanced program that enables the volume measurement by percentage.     Selected teams will go through further evaluation and receive intensive entrepreneurial education for the Start-up Festival in August.   Congratulations on your excellent achievement, and all the best for your future endeavors!   *Zero-Class Lab Website: www.zeroclasslab.com

“Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past”- Lana Del Rey Check out the Video of the recent FIT Fashion Show at Songdo Hyundai Outlet on June 5th! *Click here to watch the video. Leonard Bess, the Director of SUNY Korea FIT Program, Dajeong Lee, Fashion Design undergraduate, and Quinne Murakawa, Fashion Business Management undergraduate, were interviewed for this video.

SUNY Korea welcomes Fall 2021 new students! The Admissions team has prepared and sent the Welcome Packages to all of our new students. SUNY Korea is thrilled as our new students join our journey of becoming History Makers!

IFEZ (Incheon Free Economic Zone) had a conference on “Logistics, Robotics, and AI” at the Robot Tower of Incheon Robot Land in Cheongna International City.     During this meeting, Professor Bruce Jo in the Mechanical Engineering Department gave a speech on implementing robotics in the site of logistics and the required technology, along with the introduction of some robotics at different companies.     He claimed that “with this conference as the starting point, cooperation and networking between the relevant companies and organizations logistics will be pursued, so that Incheon can play the leading role in the field of Logistics and Robotics.”     Professor Bruce Jo is in charge of the “Innovative Cluster Planning for Aerial and Complex Logistics in Port Authority through Robotics, AI, and Automation” which has been selected as one of the projects for “Renovating the Ecosystem in IFEZ”.     *Related articles:   Incheon ilbo: Click here  Robot News: Click here       SUNY Korea Website:  Click here 

A SUNY Korea admissions promotion event was successfully held at the Songdo Hyundai Premium Outlet on June 5th with an FIT fashion show and exhibition. A lot of people visited the admissions event booth to add SUNY Korea on Kakaotalk Channel and receive gifts. Over 500 people participated in the event. Additionally, some of the students who watched the FIT fashion show visited the booth to get more admissions information about SUNY Korea. The FIT fashion show and admissions promotion event were a great opportunity to let people learn about SUNY Korea.

The SUNY Korea Admissions Information Session for the Fall 2021 and Spring 2021 semester entry was held at Shilla Stay Samsung in Seoul on June 5th. Students and parents who participated in this session showed high interest in SUNY Korea. They were able to get a lot of information about the admissions process through the information session, Q&A session, and a chat with the admissions counselors. The information session was a great way to communicate with the future applicants of SUNY Korea.     

SUNY Korea had the Spring 2021 Commencement ceremony on June 18th. SUNY Korea awarded a total of 85 students, including 44 students from Stony Brook University and 41 students from FIT with the respective degrees. The commencement was held offline with a limited number of people due to the strict social distancing of COVID-19, and was also live-streamed on YouTube. During this event, SUNY Korea President Wonki Min, Honorary President Dr.Myung Oh, Stony Brook University President Maurie Mclnnis and FIT President Joyce Brown gave commencement and congratulatory addresses. YouTube Live- streaming Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxFhKIbRacg

SUNY Korea FIT graduating students had an Opening Ceremony for their AAS (Associate in Applied Science) exhibition on June 11th . The graduating student exhibition features the works of fourteen graduating students from the Fashion Design Department.   President Wonki Min gave congratulatory remarks for the graduating Fashion Design students. Following on from that, FIT professors Leonard Bess and Koo Bonkuk gave congratulatory speeches for the students during the event.     The students’ works of beautifully-made garments, which were displayed at the Hyundai Premium Outlet on June 5th, will be presented at the SUNY Korea Museum from June 14th to June 18th. The clothes reflect the inspiration from the historical clothing from 1920 to 1970 combined with the new trend of floral trace and sweet romance.   We send our sincere congratulations to the graduating FIT students for their splendid works of art!

A research paper written by DTS undergraduate students, Tae-Yun Kim, Soo-min Kim, Tae-woong Yoon, and Do-hyun Oh under Professor Neal Dreamson’s supervision, has been published in an academic journal, Korean Journal of Converging Humanities (Volume 9, Issue 2, page 1-22). Korean Journal of Converging Humanities is a journal registered on KCI (Korea Citation Index), published on a quarterly basis. The paper was an outcome from their study in a course, EST 441 Interdisciplinary Senior Project, Fall 2020.      In the paper, the team critically reviews the concepts of smart cities and human smart cities using three well-known smart cities’ plans including Barcelona, Dubai, and Singapore. The team discovers that the plans contain anti-humanism and anti-non-humanism (or anthropocentrism). The team argues for three posthumanist dimensions: non-dualism, more-than-humans, and ecological community to make smart cities free from anthropocentrism. The team develops a conceptual framework for post-humanist smart cities to ensure that the next generation of smart cities becomes inclusive of all humans, non-humans, and more-than-humans.     Below are the testimonial statements of the students.     Tae Yun: The production of this research paper enables me to have a new perspective on technology that coexists with the present society we live in. Defining the right use of a city and technology from a different (and whole new) perspective was the biggest challenge but, at the same time, was the biggest harvest of learning.     Soomin: I had been interested in policies regarding Smart Cities, and this opportunity helped me open up new perspectives towards the topic. I'm happy to see our paper got published in the academic journal as an extension of the college course. I was thankful to work with a great team and learn deeply about the research process.     Taewoong: I have learned a lot academically in the process of writing this research paper, and I deeply felt that there were things I needed to study more after all. I sincerely thank Professor Neal Dreamson. Prof. Dreamson has given us a lot of feedback. I also appreciate our team members, who have always commented on revising and supplementing with meticulousness.     Dohyun: What I gained from this paper is that I learned the proper way of critical review. A critical review is not just criticizing a topic but continuously questioning and evaluating a topic.        

SUNY Korea FIT had a fashion show at the Songdo Hyundai Premium Outlet on June 5th. With “Nostalgia” as the theme, the show demonstrated the works of FIT Fashion Design students from NDGC (Natural Dye Garden Club).      FIT students not only designed the works, but also participated as the models during the show.     Exhibition of students’ works, Natural Dye Workshop, MSC's fashion merchandise, IVY’s fashion magazine, and admission booths were also set up during the event.   We truly appreciate the hard work of our FIT students and the coaching of FIT faculty members for such spectacular fashion works!      *Related article: Click here 

Two Computer Science students and Professor Youngmin Kwon in one team developed a data processing technology concerning training AI applications with image classification. This new technology is unlike the AI models in general which need completed decoded images for classification, and has been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.       Saving time and memory space, this technology is even expected to save peoples’ lives if it assists the safety device as an auxiliary method.     Below is the team member Yousun’s written interview!         1. Please introduce yourself and your team members.     Hi. I am Yousun, a Ph.D. student in the CS department of the IoT lab. The two members of my team are my advisor, Prof. Youngmin Kwon, and another Ph.D. student, Jay, who graduated last Feb.       2. Could you explain briefly about this newly developed data processing that has been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office?     There is a study field of image classification in AI applications. The idea we developed is training an AI model with not fully decoded images. In general, pictures for AI training are completely decoded, but it is also likely to be trained as a deep learning model if we feed intermediate data taken from the decoding process.     The word ‘frequency’ is also used not just for radio waves, but pictures too. Image pixels are arranged in frequency ascending order while it’s in the encoding and decoding stage, and we take intermediate data from this stage.     Then the high-frequency parts are discarded because it is enough to train a model with the remaining parts if training targets are lumps of features. To do so, training data can be reduced up to one-fourth from the original size. It helps to save training time as well as memory space requirements.       3. How do you think this new technology will help people in general?     It requires fewer parameters of an AI model than using general pictures, therefore, the classification time is also fast with the same hardware. That small time gap is important to prevent the car accident of autonomous vehicles moving at high speed. If it assists the safety device as an auxiliary method, it will be helpful to save lots of lives.       4. Tell us about some difficulties or challenges your team faced while working together.     The first challenge was to design and implement an image decoder that can freely handle all sub-processes for decoding. We read lots of books about image processing and lecture notes.     Another difficulty was finding the best model for learning our outputs and repeated parameter tunings for each model. This is because it takes a long time to train the model, even if the input data has a small data size.       5. What did you learn from this experience?     One big lesson that I felt, and I would like to say to other students, is ‘You have to believe in what you think with confidence’. It would have never been invented if we ignored it as a trivial idea, and we would have given up without doing our best.    

SALI 360, a technology developed by CS Professor Jihoon Ryoo and two SUNY Korea students, Duin Baek and Hangil Kang, has recently been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.     The technology was developed in 2019, out of the need that the currently available bandwidth in most of the developed countries can hardly support the bandwidth required to stream a large scale of contents like the 360°contents .     As an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding virtual reality image, SALI 360 improves perception quality while reducing the contents size to serve the streaming service on the current network platform.     By utilizing the characteristics of the human vision system (HVS), it solves the mismatch between the demand on higher quality of streaming services and the current network platform.     Related article: Click here  YouTube Video: Click here