We are delighted to announce the awardees of the 2026 KSEAUK Outstanding Research Awards.

RFL

• 강효지 (Research Associate, Imperial College London) - Understanding how clouds influence the Earth’s climate.
• 차영옥 (Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Queen Mary University) - Building new AI methods to read, understand, and analyse scientific data to help science move forward faster.
• 권영대 (Research Scientist, Samsung AI Center-Cambridge) - Advances in efficient agentic AI.

JFL

• 유현정 (PhD Student, University College London) - Generating empirical knowledge about the gap between the creation and use of BIM (building information modelling)-enabled asset information.
• 서한비 (PhD Student, University of St. Andrews) - Exploring how galaxies and their dark matter halos are connected.

We sincerely thank all participants for their interest in this year’s award programme. KSEAUK will continue to host these awards in the future and encourages prospective applicants to apply next year.

Sincerely,
KSEAUK