Awards and Achievements

Awards, achievements, and travel grants I have received.

2026

  • IEEE SMC 2026 Student and Young Professional Travel Grant

    Award amount: $600

2025

  • 1st Place

    1st Place: Hyundai Motor Group's Autonomous Driving Challenge

    Award amount: $22,000

    Hyundai Motor Group Team FAST (UNIST)

    Developed and implemented robust End-to-End autonomous driving algorithms to win 1st place in the competition.

    Special privilege: Autonomous driving field trip

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    Project Details

    Overview

    Development of a Camera-Only, Deployment-Oriented End-to-End Autonomous Driving Model and the entire pipeline from data collection to closed-loop validation.

    Competition Progression

    1. Round 1 Qualifiers

      16 Teams → 8 Teams

    2. Round 1 Main Round

      8 Teams → 6 Teams

      3rd Place

    3. Round 2 Qualifiers

      6 Teams → 4 Teams

    4. FINAL

      1st Place among 4 Finalists

      Winner

    Technical Details

    Full-Stack E2E Development
    Developed an End-to-End autonomous driving model from scratch, covering the entire pipeline from architecture design to implementation.
    Robustness
    Applied Imitation Learning and DAgger (Dataset Aggregation) to handle covariate shift and out-of-distribution scenarios.
    Data Pipeline
    Collected and refined approximately 24 hours of driving data using multi-view cameras, IMU, and GPS.
    Consistency Enhancement
    Developed specialized modules and loss functions to ensure prediction consistency between planning and control heads, addressing a key challenge in End-to-End models.
    Labeling Policy
    Established a data labeling policy to enhance closed-loop driving stability.
  • Grand Prize

    Grand Prize: Brain To Society, U-Challenge Festival

    Award amount: $3,600

    UNIST Team leader · 1st out of 96 teams

    Project: Sensor-driven Hierarchical Information Fusion Transformer for BEV-based Maneuvering in Dense Multi-lane Environments

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  • 3rd Place

    3rd Place: Hyundai Motor Group's Autonomous Driving Challenge

    Award amount: $3,600

    Hyundai Motor Group Team FAST (UNIST) · Round 1 main round

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  • Excellence Award

    Excellence Award: AI Tech Open Workshop

    Award amount: $2,400

    UNIST Team FAST

    Research: Development of an End-to-End Autonomous Driving Model Based on a High-Dimensional Simulator

2023

  • Undergraduate Research Award

    Research: Autonomous Driving Waypoint-generation based on Vehicle Kinematics

2021

  • Academic Achievement Award

    Undergraduate academic achievement excellence award.