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A Leap Forward _ Yonsei Annals 2021 April Issue page 6~7
Date
2021.04.19
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연세프론티어랩
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Yonsei Engineering’s Charge Forward


   Yonsei University has thankfully been a gamechanger when it comes to fostering international collaborative research. One of its efforts is Yonsei Frontier Lab, its joint research platform with leading international researchers created in 2017. By engendering partnerships with foreign universities and funding researchers to conduct joint programs at Yonsei, the program hopes to elevate the quality of research, out of which the College of Engineering accounts for more than 26%. The Lab's "Joint Research Program through Strategic Partnership" (JRPSP) works to establish a joint research network with world-leading universities. From the University of Geneva to Emory University, the program has formed over 42 joint research teams with foreign universities. Most recently, the YFL signed a joint research partnership with Tel Aviv to work on joint research and technology transfer.


   The program has also worked to develop personal relationships with foreign researchers and professors at Yonsei University. "High-quality information passes through face-to-face conversations," told Kim Seong-lyun, the Chair of the School of Electrical and Electric Engineering to The Yonsei Annals. "It is through these personal meetings that partnerships are created," he said. The Yonsei Frontier Program for Outstanding Scholars (YFPOS) provides up to $30,000, one of the largest university internalization funds, to invite researchers from around the world to conduct joint research. Through this program, professors can freely invite their foreign partners and the university provides for housing, research space, and stay support for guest faculty members. Twenty-seven teams have been selected for this research, and they were able to publish 42 co-authored papers.


   In an interview with the Annals, Senior Vice President for Research Affairs and Head of the Yonsei Frontier Lab, Professor Kim Woo-teak, stated that the YFPOS program not only produced prominent research papers but also put Yonsei University on the map as well. Throughout this series of collaborations, Yonsei Engineering served as a great host for renowned scholars like Professor Seung-Pyo Hong and was able to create a strong bond with fellow researchers that naturally resulted in impressive research outputs —32.4% of all papers at Yonsei University are now published through international joint research.


   Recently, the school produced its first tenured foreign professor at the Department of Material Science in the College of Engineering, Professor Aloysius Soon. A global researcher who has studied in Germany and Australia, the professor accounts for the warm support of the department during his first few years at Yonsei University. They assigned a Korean mentor for his first years at the university and helped him receive funding for research projects. He was able to start his own lab, the Materials Theory Group (MTG) as a result.


   His research at Yonsei University has been remarkable. The "Hydrogen-doped viscoelastic liquid metal microparticles for stretchable printed metal lines" paper published in Nature recently focused on understanding the oxidation behavior of non-ferrous metals to create a metal alloy that acts as a liquid but retains the conductivity of a solid. A bendable, stretchable liquid metal capable of conducting electricity, the alloy can move fluidly across surfaces and still conduct electrons just like a solid wire. The research has enormous implications, from foldable smartphones and machines to creating different shapes of metals to increase contact with incoming gases.


   Yonsei professors are seeking ways to further enrich the research environment. They hope to overcome funding shortages through collaborations with the private sector to continue its quest towards internationalization. To this end, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering's RAMO (Robotic And MObile networks laboratory) has led the charge in the nation's leadership in 5G technology. Led by Professor Kim Seong-lyun, the lab has been at the helm of PriMO-5G, a joint research project between South Korea and Europe. Working with private companies such as Ericson and Korea Telecom in partnership with KAIST, King's College London, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the project has demonstrated an end-to-end 5G system that provides a cross-continental immersive video service for moving objects such as drones.


출처 : The Yonsei Annals(http://annals.yonsei.ac.kr)

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