Qualcomm Innovation Awards, 2016

- Selected 10 awardees out of 61 submissions from KAIST graduate students
- Received a cash prize of KRW 5 million (~USD 5,000)

KT ICT Prize, Big Contest (2nd Big Data Analytics Competition), 2014

- Selected 10 out of 386 teams (Teammates: M. Chae, D. Ko, J.-w. Lee, and D. Shin)
- Received a cash prize of KRW 1 million (~USD 1,000)

Microsoft Research Fellowship Nomination Award, 2012

- Selected 27 awardees out of 94 Ph.D. candidates in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Recommended by KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center (KMCC)

Honorable Mention, 18th Samsung Electronics Humantech Paper Award, 2012

- Selected 8 awardees in communications and networks (98 out of 1462 in total)
- Received a cash prize of KRW 2 million (~USD 2,000)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of Math., KAIST, Fall 2010

- Selected 10 teaching assistants for the fall semester, 2010 (Intro. to Linear Algebra)

Some Mathematical Olympiad Prizes, -2003 

​- Silver prize, 17th Korean Mathematical Olympiad, Korean Mathematical Society, 2003
- Silver prize, 15th National Mathematics Competition, Seoul National University, 2003
- 1st, Chungnam Mathematics Competition, 2001 (middle school) & 2003 (high school)