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- June Huh
- Professor, Stanford University, USA / Scholar, KIAS
- An innovative mathematician who used breakthrough methods from algebraic geometry to prove the long-standing unsolved mathematical problems of Read’s conjecture and the Rota-Heron-Welsh conjecture.
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- Bong-Kiun Kaang
- Professor, Seoul National University
- A world-class neurobiologist who contributed to the understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying how our brains store and retrieve the information at the synaptic level.
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- Kyunghyun Cho
- Professor, New York University, USA
- A globally recognized expert in artificial intelligence who developed a neural machine translation algorithm that can provide high-quality translations by considering the context of paragraph or page content.
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- Daeyeol Lee
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
- An international authority in neuroscience who identified neural mechanisms of decision-making by incorporating economics into neuroscientific research using nonhuman primates as subjects.
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- Bong Joon Ho
- Film Director
- A world-famous film director who earned the Academy Award for Best Director at the 2020 Oscars for his film “Parasite”, and demonstrated the excellence of Korean films and Korean culture on the world stage.
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- Sungno Lee
- Medical Director, Karamtola Hospital, Bangladesh
- A medical director, known as the Korean Albert Schweitzer, who has devoted to treating the underprivileged and the poor in the Karamtola region of Bangladesh for the past 27 years.