Professor Jongseong Brad Choi of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Korea has secured four competitive government research grants for 2026, with a combined award of approximately 1.31 billion KRW (~1.09 million USD). The selected projects are supported by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), Ministry of Trade Industry and Resources (MOTIR), and the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), with project durations ranging from 2 to 4.5 years. The total combined budget of these large-scale consortium projects exceeds 34.7 billion KRW (~28.9 million USD).
Through these initiatives, Professor Choi and his research team, the MEIC Lab, will contribute to advanced research in areas such as multimodal neural rendering, physics-informed AI, and multi-agents platforms technologies. The MEIC Lab currently consists of 24 researchers, including one postdoctoral researcher, three Ph.D. students, seven master’s students, and thirteen undergraduate students and interns. Since joining SUNY Korea, Professor Choi has contributed to SUNY Korea securing a total of 4.37 billion KRW (~$3.7 million USD) in research funding, with approximately 2.7 billion KRW (~$2.83 million USD) as unused open grants expected to contribute substantially to the university’s growth in research.
Professor Choi expressed his appreciation for the continued support from SUNY Korea: “I find great meaning in contributing to large-scale national research initiatives through invitations from leading institutions in Korea. Such recognition of SUNY Korea and MEIC Lab reflects our continued research contributions in neural rendering and computer vision fields, including our recent work published in IEEE; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11455377. I will continue striving to establish the MEIC Lab as a leading research group in visual intelligence, both in Korea and internationally.”
MEIC Lab Website: https://www.meic-lab.com/
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