Awards

Promising Young Scientist Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Reliability Division 2025 (KSME Reliability 2025, Gyeongju, South Korea)

Jongseong Choi*

“EV-PINN: Electric Vehicle Battery Surrogate Model using Transformer-Based Physics Informed Neural Network”

04/2025

Outstanding Presentation Award

Intl. Conf. on Precision Engineering and Sustainable Manufacturing (PRESM 2025, Chiangmai, Thailand)

Jongseong Choi*

“Physics-informed Neural Network (PINN) and Hyper-realistic Digital Twin (3DGS) for Predictive Engineering System Assessment”

07/2025

Outstanding Thesis Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Reliability Division 2024 (KSME Reliability 2024, Yeosu, South Korea)

Ricardo Ortiz and Jongseong Choi

“Autonomous Manipulation of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) with an User-Guided-Path on a Map: Quantitative Simulation and Analysis”

03/2024

Best Paper Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Reliability Division 2024 (KSME Reliability 2024, Yeosu, South Korea)

Jonathan Boyack and Jongseong Choi *

“Falling Haz ard Assessment Application: Automated Labelling Large Data Sets for Transfer Learning Models”

03/2024

Best Poster Award

Annual Conf. of the Korean Society of PHM (PHM Korea 2024, Seoul, South Korea)

Hanbeom Chang and Jongseong Choi*

“LiDAR-Camera based Real-time 3D Reconstruction with Mixed Reality Visualization System”

10/2024

Vice Presidential Award for Industrial Potential

2024 SUNY Korea Research Challenge

The team of Hansol Lim, Jeewon Lee, Hanbeom Chang, and Jongseong Choi* won the competition and a monetary prize of $10,000 for conference attending

12/2024

Outstanding Paper Award

7th Intl. Conf. on Materials and Reliability (ICMR 2025, Busan, South Korea)

Jeewon Lee, Hansol Lim, Jongseong Choi*, Sangho Song, Jaechul Park, and Hwasup Jang

“Development of a 3D Gaussian Splatting Digital Twining Platform for Remote Ship Assessment”

12/2024

Grand Prize

Idea Challenge Competition ” held by Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Chungcheong Division and KIMM 2024 (KSME Chungcheong 2024, Daejeon, South Korea)

Hansol Lim, Jeewon Lee, Hanbeom Chang, Sooyeun Yang, and Jongseong Choi*

“Physics-Informed Neural Network for EV Battery Prediction”

12/2024

Best Paper Award

Annual Conference of the PHM Korea Society (PHM Korea 2023, Seoul, South Korea)

Hansol Lim and Jongseong Choi*

“Real-Time, Non-Intrusive Inspection of Structures and Machines Using Visual Analytics and SfM-Based Digital Twin Generation”

07/2023

Promising Young Scientist Award

Annual Conference of the PHM Korea Society (PHM Korea 2023, Seoul, South Korea)

Jongseong Choi*

“Engineering-Soft-Power engaged visualization analytics and human - machine collaboration remote assessment for large-scale structures”

07/2023

Outstanding Project Award

Incheon Technopark (ITP)

The team MEIC (Ricardo Ortiz, Jonathan Boyakck, Alfredo Valenzuela, and Sambridha Bhattarai, supervised by Jongseong Choi, won

“2023 Global Product-Service Localization Research Award Competition”

11/2023

Bronze Medal

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Meeting 2023 (KSME 2023, Incheon, South Korea)

Hansol Lim participated a LLM Competition and won with title

“LLM-based Fault Diagnosis and Natural Language Response in Military Robots and Drones”

11/2023

Best Paper Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Meeting 2023 (KSME 2023, Incheon, South Korea)

Jonathan Boyack and Jongseong Choi*

“Falling Hazard Assessment Application: Automated Labelling Large Data Sets for Transfer Learning Models”

11/2023

Excellent Presentation Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual Meeting 2023 (KSME 2023, Incheon, South Korea)

Hansol Lim and Jongseong Choi*

“Seamless 3D Scene Control of NeRF Generated Digital Twin Environments”

11/2023

Best Paper Award

14th Intl. Symposium on NDT in Aerospace (AeroNDT 2023, Busan, South Korea)

Jonathan Boyack, Hansol Lim, Alfredo Valenzuela, Jongseong Choi*, Sangho Song, Yongseok Choi, and Dongguk Im

“Region of Interest Locator with Digital Twin Model Generation of Large-Scale Facility”

11/2023

Outstanding Paper Award

14th Intl. Symposium on NDT in Aerospace (AeroNDT 2023, Busan, South Korea)

Hansol Lim and Jongseong Choi*

“Real-Time 3D Video Generation Using NeRF”

11/2023

Outstanding Project Award

Incheon Technopark (ITP), Incheon, South Korea

The team MEIC (Jonathan Boyakck, Ricardo Ortiz, and Jee Won Lee, supervised by Prof. Jongseong Choi, won

“2022 Global Product-Service Localization Research Award Competition”

11/2022

Best Paper Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering Annual Meeting 2022 (KSME 2024, Jeju, South Korea)

Pureun Jeong, Jimin Shin, Seung Hyun Cha, Jongseong Choi*

“Indoor Navigation System Designed for a Safety of Construction Site”

11/2022

Best Paper Award

Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering Annual Meeting 2022 (KSME 2024, Jeju, South Korea)

Jonathan Boyack and Jongseong Choi*

“A Real-Time Log Data Analytics-based Electric Vehicle Path Optimization”

11/2022

Travel Award & Workshop Invitation

NHERI RAPID Experimental Facility, NSF (UW Seattle, WA, USA)

This award selects 20 attendees who has professional research background for the RAPID 4 days Equipment Training Workshop at the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as support up to $1,500 Travel Fund

07/2019

Travel Award for Conference

College of Engineering, Purdue University

This award recognizes excellence PhD candidates supporting up to $1,000 for 2019 EWSHM conference at Hilton Hotel, Manchester, UK

05/2018

Honorable Mention

3rd Midwest Smart Structure Colloquium, University of Illinois (UIUC)

10/2017

Resident Assistant Scholarship

University of Mississippi

08/2012 – 08/2013

Honor Program Scholarship

University of Mississippi

This scholarship is awarded to prominent undergraduate students in the School of Engineering.

01/2011