Dr. Seon Hyeog Kim, a 2022 graduate, was awarded the Outstanding New Employee Award by ETRI in April 2024. He works in the Digital Convergence Research Laboratory in ETRI and is currently carrying out a research project titled “Development of Battery Life Cycle Management and Traceability System”, which is a collaborative project of our department and is funded by the Korea Development Institute (KDI).

The Outstanding New Employee Award is granted to the top five candidates out of approximately 400 new employees, judged on their research output and work over the past three years. His receipt of the award ins particularly notable as he is the only winner who has been with the organization for less than three years.