On August 28, Kiseok Song, a Ph.D. candidate from the KAIST Department of Electrical Engineering, was honored with the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award. The society recognized promise in his academic achievements in biomedical technology. Song is one of the three exclusively awarded scholars around the world, this year.
Song’s pioneering research was focused on biomedical technology circuitry, which was made possible by integrating electrical engineering practices. His innovations were combined with smart wireless biomedical systems using System-on-a-Chip (SoC) technology. His work enabled smartphone-connected biomedical patch systems to consume less power. Applications range from smart electro-acupuncture, transdermal drug delivery, and multi-modal non-invasive glucose monitors.
Song’s advisor, KAIST Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo noted, “All of these bio-medical systems, in combination with current smart phones, open a new healthcare paradigm that could improve quality of life.” “The challenge was to take into account a wide variety of designs, such as high performance, convenience, and safety for bio-medical system design, from transistor level to system level, covering biological background, circuit technique, system and application design.”
Song completed his undergraduate degree at the KAIST Department of Electrical Engineering in 2009 and earned his Master’s Degree at the same department in 2011. During his years at KAIST, he published over thirty papers in international journals and has over ten patents under his name. On October 2, Hhe and other nominees received their awards at the annual Marconi Society Gala in the National Academies of Science Building, Washington D.C. The nominated “Young Scholars” will be granted a 100,000 US dollar Marconi Award Fellowship.
The Marconi Society was established in 1974 after an endowment was made by the daughter of Guglielmo Marconi who was a Nobel award laureate who invented the radio. Through international conferences, symposiums, and publications, the Marconi Society has been honoring and awarding major innovations in the field of communications technology. The society pays attention to how these developments can benefit and change society.