On May 14, 2025, Professor Gayoung Park, from the Department of Technology and Society, delivered a special lecture at Coffee & Connection 2025, hosted by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Korea at the GM Technical Center Korea (GMTCK) in Incheon. The event, themed “Leading the Way: Heritage & Future of Women Leadership,” brought together professionals from various industries to explore DE&I (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and leadership.
The event was made even more meaningful by the attendance of Michelle Gardner, Vice President at General Motors, who delivered the keynote speech and fireside chat. Professor Park’s special lecture followed this main session.
In her talk, “Women Bridging Futures: Leadership with Accountability – Building Human-Centered Leadership in the Age of AI,“ Professor Park shared how human-centered design, empathy, and accountability can reshape leadership in the age of AI. Reflecting on her journey as an engineer, she discussed how leadership in the age of AI means connecting across disciplines, building bridges between people and systems, and co-designing futures with a strong sense of responsibility.
Her message offered a deep insight about how engineers are not just builders of systems, but bridge-builders of meaning, ethics, and human connection, fulfilling a growing need for responsible, inclusive leadership as we design the future with AI.
Professor Linda Kim in the Fashion Business Management Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) at SUNY Korea participated as an exhibiting artist at the 2026 International Fashion Art Biennale, held from September 21 to October 31, 2026, at Youngwol Y Park in Gangwon Province, South Korea. Organized by the Korea Fashion & Culture Association, the ninth biennale brought together 74 artists from 10 countries under the theme “Sculpturing Space: Fashion.&rdqu
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Professor Mario Rüttgers of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Korea has contributed as a co-author to a new study published in Nature. The work introduces HydroGym, a computational platform that brings together reinforcement learning and computational fluid dynamics to develop intelligent strategies for controlling fluid flows. One of the study’s key findings is that reinforcement-learning agents can learn flow-control strategies in one computational environment
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