Rising Star in STEM: Ga-eun Jeong of Sungshin Women’s University Wins Prestigious 2024 Presidential Science Scholarship

Sungshin Women’s University Student Selected as Presidential Science Scholarship Recipient

Sungshin Women’s University announced that Jeong Ga-eun, a 3rd year student in the AI Convergence Department, was selected as a scholarship recipient for the ‘2024 Presidential Science Scholarship’ supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

The Presidential Science Scholarship aims to discover and foster the best students in the fields of science and technology with creative potential and to cultivate world-class key scientists. Every year, 60 third-year undergraduate students in domestic universities are selected through in-depth interviews by comprehensively evaluating academic performance, scientific activities, growth plans, and volunteer activities, and are supported with full tuition and an academic incentive of 2.5 million won per semester until graduation.

Jeong Ga-eun has been highly evaluated in the social contribution sector for her digital education volunteer work targeting various age groups for the past two years. She has also utilized her major knowledge to develop a platform for the visually impaired and an agricultural product platform for students living alone and housewives, and has won the grand prize in the school IT competition and the excellence award in the ‘2023 KAMIS Utilization Contest’.

As an undergraduate researcher at the Mobility Software Platform & Data Engineering Lab (SPIDEr LAB) led by Professor Jong-gu Kang of the Department of AI Convergence at Sungshin Women’s University, Jeong Ga-eun presented her research on the topic of ‘Traffic Accident Prediction Model’ at the 2024 Korea Software Engineering Conference and received excellent evaluations. She aims to develop a platform that will be helpful to society after graduating from college.

“I am very honored to have been selected for the Presidential Science Scholarship,” Jeong Ga-eun said. “I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Professor Byun Hye-won, who gave me various insights and courage, and to my advisor Professor Kang Jong-gu, who provided me with generous support so that I could freely pursue the research I wanted to do, as well as to the professors in the Department of AI Convergence. I will devote myself to my research and studies in order to grow into a world-class IT talent in the future.”