This fall, recognition for the UNIST community spans creative practice, international leadership, cybersecurity, data science, and semiconductor engineering. The honors bring together faculty and students at different stages of their careers, highlighting work that is gaining attention across fields.

Ayoung Kim  | TIME100 AI 2026

Invited Professor Ayoung Kim has been named to TIME100 AI 2026 in the Thinkers category for her work exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and human experience. Through multimedia works including     Delivery Dancer , Kim examines how algorithms shape movement, labor, and everyday life—using art to probe the growing influence of AI on the world around us. 

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Jae-Yon Lee  |  Global Leadership in Digital Humanities

Associate Professor Jae-Yon Lee of the School of Liberal Arts has been elected President-Elect of the Constituent Organizations Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). He will assume the presidency in 2027, bringing to the role research that connects Korean literature with computational approaches including network and corpus analysis, word embeddings, and AI language models.  

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Seongil Wi's Team  |  Korea's First Internet Defense Prize

A browser-security system developed by Professor Seongil Wi's team received the Internet Defense Prize at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium, marking the first time a Korean institution has received the Meta-funded award. Their browser-security system, BUIzz, uncovered 35 security bugs across six major browsers by testing vulnerabilities that can emerge through ordinary browsing behavior. The paper also received runner-up recognition for the symposium's Distinguished Paper Award.  

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Industrial Engineering  | Two Honors in Data Science

Two student teams from UNIST's Department of Industrial Engineering received honors at the 2026 K-DATA SCIENCE Conference. Junhyeong Lee and Sangjin Jin received the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award for research on decision-focused learning, while Inwoo Tae and Kangmin Kim received the Creative Research Award for work on preserving temporal relationships in sequential synthetic data.

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Electrical Engineering  | Two Honors in Circuit Research

Students from Professor Heein Yoon's laboratory received two honors for advances in semiconductor circuit automation. SungJin Kim received an Outstanding Paper Award from Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions Division for AI-assisted circuit design, while HyeonJun Nam, Hyogyoung An, and ChangMin An received the IITP President's Award at ICT Challenge 2026 for a clock generator that recalibrates itself as operating conditions change.

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