Jeonghyo Lee, an integrated MS/PhD student in POSTECH’s Department of Electrical Engineering (thesis advisor: Professor Wonbin Hong), received a TICRA Travel Grant at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI).

The TICRA Foundation, which promotes education and research in electromagnetic science worldwide, selects only eight recipients globally for USD 1,000 travel grants. Researchers from all regions and career stages may apply, making the award particularly difficult for graduate students to win.

Lee is researching “Independent, Concurrent Dual-Harmonic Frequencies Operation of Overlapped Spatial-Temporal Phased Array using Dual-Functional Radiator.” The study first proposed operation at two resonant frequencies using a single module containing phased-array antennas fully overlapping in space and time. It demonstrated superior performance compared with research published worldwide.

The work had already received an Honorable Mention at the conference. Receiving the TICRA Travel Grant as well represents an exceptionally rare level of international achievement.