Holly talks with Professor Young Ho Cho, a founding member and faculty member from the Bio and Brain Engineering Department at KAIST. He shares about his current research of using skin patches to monitor human emotion and discusses how developing technology should really start with a focus on humans.

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KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 09

Holly interviews Dr. Vincent P. Manno, Provost, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Engineering from Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, USA. He shares his observations about undergraduate student learning at Olin College and discusses how education is changing to better prepare students for the future.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 08

This week, Holly interviews Professor Sang Ah Lee from the Department of Bio and Brain engineering. Listen as she shares her talk on “Spatial Cognition and Memory” and discusses what is in the future for the field of cognitive neuroscience.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 07

Professor Chinmay Kulkarni from Carnegie Mellon University joins the show to discuss a new system that elicits peer feedback in order to allow companies to better evaluate prospective employees. The system can then use this information to help job seekers learn more about what they can do to improve as candidates in the future.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 06

This week, we are excited to have the podcast co-hosted by Tim Thompson, the co-founder of the KAIST Podcast and CEO of Archer English Consulting, with Mik. For the interview, Holly talks to Dong Soo Kwon, a professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at KAIST, Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Research Center at KAIST, and Director of the Center for Future Medical Robotics. He has developed a new medical robot that can have numerous applications to different specialties within the medical field and will change the way surgery is performed on patients compared to previous models of endoscopy robots.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 05

Dr. Jeong Ho Lee shares his breakthrough research in finding the how and where Glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor that has a fatality rate of over 90%, gets started. He also discusses what he hopes to do as the co-founder of SoVarGen, a start-up at KAIST.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 04

KAIST Professor Juho Kim describes a new tool enabling users to analyze thousands of recipes for a given dish in order to choose the one that best suits their needs.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 03

KAIST Professor David Hyunchul Shim returns to talk about his latest invention: an autonomous flying car! Using only technologies from his own lab and a small budget, Prof. Shim has created an autonomous flying vehicle for human transportation.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 02

How do you keep birds out of dangerous airspaces where planes are flying? Drones, of course! KAIST Professor David Hyunchul Shim pulls back the curtain on this exciting technology.

KAIST Podcast Season 10 Episode 01

Holly interviews Shing-Tung Yau, a professor of Mathematics at Harvard and Tsinghua University, the winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, and one of the top mathematicians in the world. He shares his life experience in growing up in Hong Kong, his feelings in being the first Chinese Fields Medal winner in mathematics, and discusses his current work solving unanswered questions in theories of Spacetime and General Relativity.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 09

KAIST doctoral student Jinsoo Park details his research on Lab-on-a-Chip, a technology that is revolutionizing the fields of chemistry and biology by enabling thousands of experiments to take place every second inside of tiny droplets.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 08

KAIST students Wonsik Jeong and Sujung Lee describe their work with Traveling Teachers, a nonprofit organization in which KAIST students travel to rural parts of Korea to educate middle and high school students.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 07

Dr. Klaus von Klitzing discusses the findings that led to his Nobel Prize as well as his outreach to promote science worldwide. Dr. Klitzing’s work is integral to the establishment of the new kilogram, which will happen later this year.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 06

In Part 1, Hyunsoo Shawn Je, an associate professor from the Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Programme at Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School in Singapore, discusses making models of a mini version of the brain using human stem cells and how this can lead to cures for diseases like alzheimer’s or autism. In the second part of the interview, In-Hyun Park, an associate professor of genetics and an associate professor in the Child Study Center at Yale Stem Cell Center, shares how he makes models of the Rett Syndrome using human stem cells and is currently working on finding a cure. Both guests talk about the future of finding a cure by this alternative method of using stem cells to make models for their diseases.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 05

This week Dongsuk Kum, a professor from the Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Green Transportation at KAIST, talks to Holly about his research for finding the best design for super-efficient and fun-to-drive hybrid electric vehicles and how it will impact the future of the automobile industry.

KAIST Podcast Season 9 Episode 04

Join Mik Fanguy, Dan Kopperud, and Holly Wang to find out what's happening at KAIST.

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