Three GIST Labs Included in the Top 100 National R&D Projects

- Labs led by Professors Park Chang Soo, Lee Heung No and Ham Byong Seung in the School of Information and Communications.

- Received certificates by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in recognition of the quality of their studies and ripple effects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

□ Three labs in the School of Information and Communications at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST, President   Young Joon Kim) led by Professors Park Chang Soo, Lee Heung No and Ham Byong Seung are included in the list of the Top 100 National R&D Projects announced by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning on August 28.

 

□ (Prof. Park Chang Soo) Prof. Park’s team is highly acclaimed for the results of its project titled “Development of hybrid WDM/OCDMA-PON technology using a supercontinuum source.”

❍ The optical access network technology developed is an optical technology-based code division multiple access applied to access networks. This is a next-generation technology that allows access networks, which have relied on synchronous access, to use asynchronous access, thereby expanding the networks or accommodating more users without replacing the existing networks.

❍ Prof. Park’s team has published the results in top-tier international journals Optics Express and the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, opening up a new horizon for next-generation optical access network studies.

 

□ (Prof. Lee Heung No) Prof. Lee’s team is included in the top 100 list in recognition of the quality the team’s research project “Realizations of next-generation core technologies using information-theoretic compressive sensing.”

❍ The team’s research has contributed to the development of the brain-computer interface that is one of promising future interface technologies. One of their research papers was published in the Journal of Neural Engineering and selected as one of the journal’s “Highlights of 2012.” Another paper on the possibilities of developing a compact spectroscope with a nanometer resolution was published in Optics Express, a renowned journal in the field of optical engineering.

❍ Prof. Lee’s research has potential for enabling ultra high capacity data to be compressed into and recovered from a tiny amount of data, which would in turn contribute to solving the challenges of ‘big data’ processing in the fields of next generation cooperative communications, secure communications, sensor networks, flash memory, high resolution spectrometers, brain-computer interface systems, ultrasound imaging, fMRI and cell imaging.

 

□ (Prof. Ham Byong Seung) Distinguished professor Ham who leads the PIP center was awarded to “The best 100 Research” with <<Double rephasing photon-echo quantum memory for long-distance quantum communications.>>

❍ The Prof. Ham’s research is for quantum memory used for future quantum communications unlimited by physical distance, where this technique should be applied to quantum communications resulting in the realization of quantum cryptography. Eventually due to the benefits of this idea it is expected that distance-unlimited quantum cryptography will be implemented for the first time in Korea in the world.

  ❍ The research result has been published in Phys. Rev. A Rapid Communications of APS journal, and the core ideas have already been filed to patents in both Korea and the USA.

 

□ The Ministry held a certificate and award giving ceremony in The K Seoul Hotel in Gangnam, Seoul at 2pm on August 28. Poster presentations of the top 100 projects were also given on that occasion.