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[YONSEI NEWS] Three Chosen as 2016 Underwood Distinguished Professors

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2017-01-19

 
Three Chosen as 2016 Underwood Distinguished Professors
 
-Recognized for World-class Research
 
 
In recognition of their superlative research achievements, three Yonsei faculty members have been named 2016 Underwood Distinguished Professors. These are Professor Dongho Kim from the Department of Chemistry, Professor Chan-Byoung Chae from the School of Integrated Technology, and Professor Kang Yell Choi from the Department of Biotechnology.
 
Since 2007, Yonsei has honored faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to the university’s international reputation through their research by naming them Underwood Distinguished Professors. During the three-year term, a Distinguished Professor receives a number of benefits, including enhanced financial incentives and teaching reductions.
 
 
Professor Dongho Kim
“Chosen for fourth consecutive time in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments”
 
 
Professor Dongho Kim’s cutting edge research focuses on various dimensions of aromaticity and antiaromaticity in molecular systems. In particular, Professor Kim has received worldwide recognition for his work on Möbius aromaticity. He has published more than 530 article in SCI journals and been cited almost 19,000 times by other scholars.
 
In recognition of the quantity and quality of his research output, Professor Kim was selected as the first National Scholar in 2007, and he received a Presidential Award for his Korean Science Prize in Chemistry. In both 2015 and 2016, he was awarded the Korean Academy of Science and Technology’s S-Oil Award for directing exceptional doctoral theses. Currently, he is an editorial board member of the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Physical Chemistry.
 
 
Associate Professor Chan-Byoung Chae
“The new standard for research on the next generation of wireless communication”
 
 
Since his appointment to Yonsei in March 2011, School of Integrated Technology Professor Chan-Byoung Chae has performed research in the area of communication networks. In particular, his innovative work on molecular communications has received international recognition from both scholars and industry, and he has filed a number of patents based on his research.
 
Professor Chae’s research is referenced frequently by top scholars in the field, and he has won several prestigious awards. Some of these include: the IEEE INFOCOM Best Demo Award, the IEIE/IEEE Joint Award for Young IT Engineer of the Year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, and the IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Young Researcher Award.
 
Professor Chae serves as an editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
 
 
Professor Kang Yell Choi
“Conducted groundbreaking research on disease treatments.”
 
 
As head of the Translational Research Center for Protein Function Control/Engineering Research Center (TRCP/ERC), Biotechnology Professor Kang Yell Choi has devoted his career to researching cell signaling, which plays a key role in a number of diseases. In particular, he has identified several small molecules involved in cell signaling that either activate or inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Professor Choi has published well over 100 articles, many of which have appeared in prestigious international journals. He has applied for or registered nearly sixty patents and transferred technologies to six different companies.
 
Presently, Professor Choi sits on the editorial board of four elite international academic journals. His work has twice been included in the list of 100 Outstanding Korean Research Results, while the National Research Foundation of Korea has recognized his work as one of 50 Outstanding Research Accomplishments in the Basic Sciences. He has also received the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Biology’s DI Award and the Yonsei University Research Award.
 
 
 
 

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