Apr. 2024
Aaron Wu and Michael Meng, two ORS students from Sonny, were awarded the HKN Outstanding Senior Award and ECE Undergraduate Research Award, respectively. The former honors a senior ECE student's high academic achievement and extracurricular involvement and the latter is given for exceptional research aptitude. Congratulations to both!
Jan. 2024
Seung Yoon (Sonny) Lee was awarded the prestigious IEEE 2023 Antennas & Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant. The grant awards $5000 to only 10 Ph.D. students globally every year to support students in their pursuit of careers in electromagnetics. Sonny’s project aims to develop a highly efficient on-chip antenna array operating in the mmWave band, incorporating low-loss vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches through monolithic integration. The primary objective is to design, fabricate, and characterize a 60 GHz electronically scanned array for high-speed wireless systems. (Link1) (Link2)
Aug. 2023
Seung Yoon (Sonny) Lee was awarded the IEEE Ph.D. Student Travel Grant during the 2023 IEEE AP-S/URSI meeting in Portland, Oregon. This competitive grant is a recognition of excellence in their field of research, with 20 exceptional applicants, including Sonny, chosen to receive this travel grant, amounting to $1000 per recipient. (Link1) (Link2)
Aug. 2023
Sonny has been consecutively chosen to mentor four ECE undergraduate students in the Opportunity Research Scholars' (ORS) Program, an undergraduate research initiative. He extends his gratitude to Dr. Gregory D. Durgin, Director of the Program, and Dr. Nima Ghalichechian, his advisor.
Aug. 2023
Tianyun Zhao, an ORS mentee from Sonny, has been accepted into Stanford's EE M.S. program. Congratulations, Delia!
Mar. 2023
Seung Yoon has been selected as a recipient of the CREATION Award, which recognizes students who are involved in activities aimed at enhancing and improving courses, known as CouRse EnhAncemenTs & ImprOvemeNts (CREATION). (Link)
Apr. 2023
Sonny's team successfully submitted their research findings and participated in the poster session during the ORS symposium (ORSS). Their article is titled "Robotic Radiation Pattern Measurement System for 10-110 GHz Based in Both Near Field and Far Field."
Jan. 2023
In the capacity of a mentor for the ORS program, Sonny participated in an outreach effort directed towards Drew Charter High School, where presented his team's research to the attending high school students.
Sep. 2022
Sonny has been selected as a mentor for four undergraduate ECE students in the Opportunity Research Scholars' (ORS) Program, an undergraduate research program in which he participated as a mentor. He expresses his gratitude to Dr. Gregory D. Durgin, Director of the Program, and Dr. Nima Ghalichechian, his advisor.
Aug 2022
Sonny commenced his doctoral studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall of 2022, where he assumed the position of a Graduate Research Assistant in the mmWave Antennas and Arrays Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Nima Ghalichechian.
Mar. 2022
The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) development task force, of which Sonny is a member, has been recognized as an Excellent Research Group in the Advanced Communication Research Center in the first quarter of 2022. He expresses gratitude for the leadership of the task force by Sang-Hyuk Wi Ph.D. and the support of Sunghyun Choi Ph.D., the Senior VP/Head of the Center.
Jul. 2021
The Metamaterial Antenna System task force, which Sonny is a member of, has been recognized as an Excellent Research Group in the Advanced Communication Research Center for the second quarter of 2021. He expresses gratitude to the support provided by the task force leader, Dr. Sang-Hyuk Wi, and the Senior VP/Head of the Center, Dr. Sunghyun Choi.
Aug. 2020
Sonny has recently been joined as an RF/Antenna Engineer within the 6G Research Team at the Advanced Communications Research Center of Samsung Research, Korea.
Jul. 2020
Sonny is honored to have received the VOC Award from the DIC Center at SK Hynix. He is grateful for the support provided by his team leader, Yeong Hyun Seo, and Senior VP, Seonggye Park, Ph.D. This recognition was awarded to Sonny in appreciation of his efforts towards proposing improvements in the MOSCap application method, aimed at enhancing high-speed circuit performance, as acknowledged by the Senior VP.
Oct. 2019
The 7th SK Hynix Conference has accepted Sonny's paper entitled "Novel Inductor Design for 20Gbps High-Speed Memory Product," which is his first-authored paper. The paper describes his contribution to the development of an on-chip inductor that uses a DRAM process for the first time at SK Hynix.
Jun. 2019
Sonny was honored with the DMR Spirit Award by the DMR Group at SK Hynix for displaying exemplary dedication and commitment to the group's mission. Sonny expresses sincere appreciation for the guidance and support received from the team leader, Yeong Hyun Seo, and Senior Vice President, Seokkyu Lee Ph.D.
Mar. 2019
Sonny has been awarded the Class of 2018 Outstanding Master's Thesis Award for demonstrating exceptional research accomplishments among the master's degree candidates. This award is a recognition of his outstanding research work. Sonny expresses gratitude to Prof. Wonbin Hong for providing generous support throughout the research project.
Aug. 2018
Sonny has recently joined as a Semiconductor Modeling Engineer at the Future Technology Research Institute of SK Hynix.
Aug. 2016
Sonny commenced his M.S. in electrical engineering at POSTECH, South Korea, in fall 2016, working under Prof. Wonbin Hong in the MADs laboratory as a Graduate Research Assistant.