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Technology Commercialization Effort Topping Fellowship award notification, October 5, 2026

Mingeun receives the Technology Commercialization Effort Topping Fellowship (William H. Glenn, Sr. Fellowship)

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering awarded Mingeun Choi the Technology Commercialization Effort Topping Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes Ph.D. students who have led or substantially contributed to technology commercialization efforts related to their doctoral research at Georgia Tech. The $3,500 award is funded through the William H. Glenn, Sr. Fellowship.

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Mingeun receives the Excellent Honor Scholarship under the Korean Honor Scholarship program

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States awarded Mingeun Choi the Excellent Honor Scholarship under the 2026 Korean Honor Scholarship (KHS) program. The program supports Korean and Korean-American students in U.S. undergraduate and graduate programs, with selection based on academic achievement, recommendations, personal statements, and leadership and extracurricular activities. The scholarship provides $3,000. Choi’s recognition was also featured in the CHIMES third-quarter newsletter.

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Mingeun receives the IEEE EPS Graduate Student Grant

The IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) awarded Mingeun Choi the 2026 EPS Graduate Student Grant. The program supports EPS student members pursuing graduate study in electronics packaging and related fields, including heterogeneous integration. Selection considers academic work, research interests, recommendations, and technical and community participation. The grant provides $1,000. At Georgia Tech, Choi works with Professor Satish Kumar on thermal management for heterogeneously integrated electronics.

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ITherm 2026 Professor Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award

Mingeun receives the Professor Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award at ITherm 2026

Mingeun Choi, Professor Satish Kumar, and their coauthors received the Professor Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award in the Emerging Technologies & Fundamentals track at IEEE ITherm 2026. Their paper, “DeepONet-Enabled Fast and Scenario-Aware Spatial Temperature Prediction of a Vertical Power Delivery Module for Hyperscale Data Centers,” uses a deep operator network to accelerate thermal analysis under changing operating scenarios. The award was presented at the 25th ITherm conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Roadmap Paper Topping Fellowship certificate

Mingeun receives the Roadmap Paper Topping Fellowship (Paul R. Yopp Memorial Fellowship)

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering awarded Mingeun Choi the Roadmap Paper Topping Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes first-author roadmap papers in refereed journals or major trade publications that outline a field’s scientific and technical challenges, opportunities, and future directions. The $3,500 award is funded through the Paul R. Yopp Memorial Fellowship.

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ITherm 2025 Best Paper Runner-Up Award

Mingeun receives the ITherm 2025 Best Paper Runner-Up Award

Mingeun Choi, Professor Satish Kumar, and their coauthors received a Best Paper Runner-Up Award in the System Level Thermal Management track at IEEE ITherm 2025. Their paper, “Automated Electro-Thermal Modeling Framework of Distributed Vertical Power Delivery Architectures with Substrate-Embedded Microfluidic Cooling,” couples power delivery and embedded cooling models to assess how electrothermal feedback, including temperature-dependent electrical losses, affects system performance and cooling requirements.

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GWW Award 2025

Mingeun receives the Excellence in Service and Leadership Award

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering awarded Mingeun Choi the Excellence in Service and Leadership Award for his contributions during the 2024–2025 academic year. His activities supported student advocacy, professional development, and community engagement. He was one of three recipients of this award among 18 graduate students recognized across the School’s academic and service award categories.

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ECE at IEDM 2024

Mingeun to present at IEEE IEDM 2024

Mingeun Choi will present “Fast Prediction of Spatio-Temporal Temperature Profiles in FinFET Arrays via Numerical and Machine-Learning Approaches” at IEEE IEDM in San Francisco, December 7–11, 2024. The work develops numerical and machine-learning models for 14 nm bulk FinFET arrays, accounting for nanoscale thermal resistance and heat transfer between neighboring transistors. The presentation was highlighted in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s preview of the university’s contributions to the conference.

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