Kookmin University, Award Ceremony for the '2023 Second Half Graduate Student Thesis-Based Intellectual Property Creation Support Contest'

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Kookmin University (President Seungryeol Jeong) Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation announced that on the 23rd, an awards ceremony for the '2023 Second Half Graduate Student Thesis-Based Intellectual Property Creation Support Program Contest' was held at the Kookmin University Industry-Academic Cooperation Hall.

This contest, established to convert graduate students' excellent research achievements in the leading fields of the 4th Industrial Revolution into intellectual property and further enhance national competitiveness through technology commercialization, was hosted by the Kookmin University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and sponsored by the LINC 3.0 Project Group, marking its 6th edition.

Jinmyeong Jeong (Graduate School of Business IT, advisor Professor Namkyu Kim), who won the grand prize with the thesis titled "Off-site Tuning-Based Language Model Fine-Tuning Methodology for Privacy Protection," expressed, "I am grateful to Professor Namkyu Kim for his full support of my research," adding, "I will continue follow-up research to produce more practical and innovative outcomes."

Jaeseung Jeon (Graduate School of Automotive Engineering, advisor Professor Jinwoo Yoo) received the excellence award for his research on "Point Cloud Segmentation and Classification Network Based on Multi-Head Attention Utilizing Location Information," and Sanghoon Park (Graduate School of Automotive Engineering, advisor Professor Jinwoo Yoo) was awarded the merit prize for his well-received study on "Improving Generalization Performance of Image-Based Reinforcement Learning through Strong Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning."

Inhyeong Lee, Director of Kookmin University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, stated, "We will do our best to support graduate students so that their creative ideas do not stop at theses but are commercialized, leading to intellectual property rights and startups," adding, "We will spare no effort to create an environment where graduate students can focus on research and develop their own competitiveness."