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Distinguished SNU Members

Seoul National University honors the people who made distinguished achievements in their lives with the Distinguished SNU Members Award. It has been the highest honor bestowed upon SNU alumni or faculty since 1991. The award is granted annually on the founding anniversary of the university during the official anniversary ceremony.

HUH June/Professor of Princeton University

• Won the Fields Medal which is called the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics" for the first time in Korea
• Solved many challenges in mathematics and opened a new horizon through the combination of combinatorialism and algebraic geometry, which will contribute to innovation in various fields such as transportation, AI, semiconductor and so on.