Around the Carillon

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Profs. Junehwa Song and Sung-ju Lee from the School of Computing describe a new app that enables busy parents to utilize time between tasks to create an audiobook for their children.

Professor Andrea Bianchi from the department of Industrial Design (ID) talks about current projects that his lab, MAKinteract, is working on and discusses the role that the ID department plays in bridging design and engineering. He shares his outlook on how the field of industrial design will change the future.

Computer scientist, Shakil Muhammad stops by to discuss how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies will change our lives in the coming years.

In this episode, Martin Ziegler returns to the show to interview the KAIST Podcast’s creator, Mik Fanguy. Mik talks about his research on video lectures for e-learning environments and offers some practical advice on what works and what doesn’t with regard to online lecture videos.

Professor Martin Ziegler of the KAIST School of Computing stops by to discuss whether the world we see around us is actually a computer simulation and how to find out if it is.