Northeast Regional Conference (NRC) 2025

Innovating the Future: AI, Healthcare, Digital Transformation

April 26, 2025

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Fort Lee - George Washington Bridge

NY, NJ, Philadelphia

NRC2025 Andrew Kim Memorial Foundation Scholarship 

 Dear Young Scholars of KSEA,

On behalf of the organizing committee of the Northeast Regional Conference (NRC) 2025, we invite you to apply for the Andrew Kim Memorial Foundation (AKF) Scholarships, established in memory of Mr. Andrew Kim, who tragically lost his life in the September 11 attack. Since 2018, the AKF has been awarding scholarships annually at the NRC to support young scientists engineers who share Andrew’s passion for science.

The NRC is jointly organized by the New Jersey, New York Metropolitan, Philadelphia Chapters of the Korean-American Scientists Engineers Association (KSEA). NRC 2025 will take place on April 26, 2025, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Fort Lee, NJ, bringing together faculty, researchers, engineers, postdoctoral fellows, undergraduate graduate students from all fields of science engineering. Selected awardees will have the opportunity to present their work at the conference.

We encourage all eligible candidates to apply for this scholarship opportunity, including undergraduate graduate students, as well as early-career scholars such as postdoctoral researchers. Undergraduate graduate student applications are especially encouraged.

Eligibility:

● All post-secondary students (undergraduate, graduate students) early career scholars including post-doctoral researchers.

● Definition of Early career scholars 

  • Applicants who received the doctoral degree within 5 years (after April 1, 2020) or

  • who received the bachelor’s or master’s degree within 10 years (after April 1, 2015) or

  • who are in the degree courses (undergraduate, graduate students)

● Must be a KSEA member to participate in the scholarship competition. If not, please become a member today at https://www.ksea.org/user/Application.aspx.

Award

Four scholarship awards ($1000 x 1 $500 x3) an award certificate. 

Submission

  1. Abstract (See the guideline)

  2. CV (Maximum 2 pages)

 Deadline: April 14, 2025

Send to NRC 2025 Scholarship committee (nrc.award@gmail.com) an email title of “NRC 2025 AKF Scholarship Application_your name”

 Abstract guideline 

Title

Abstract category: e.g., Basic science, medical science, Computer science, Chemistry, Science Education, Engineering, etc.

KSEA membership ID number

Author(s)

Affiliation: e.g., Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065

●     Format: within 1,200 words Times New Roman, font size 12 point

●     Please refer to the abstract template

The awardees will be announced on the NRC homepage (https://nrc.kseany.org) also will be notified by email on April 18, 2025. All awardees must give a presentation at the NRC Conference on April 26, 2025.

Min Suk Kang, NRC 2025 Conference Chair

Ju-hyun Lee, NRC 2025 Program Chair

Simon Shim, AKF Scholarship Chair


2025 AKF Scholarship Awardee

2025 AKF AWARD
 Name
 Abstract
Prize
1st PLACE
  Jongwon Im
  Probiotic neoantigen delivery vectors for precision cancer immunotherapy
 $1,000
2nd PLACE
  Pureum Jeon
  Investigating the effect of NS1-BP on stress granules and APOE4 on lysosomes in relation to neurodegenerative disease
 $500
3rd PLACE
  Bongjun Choi
  Strong light-matter interaction for optoelectronic photonic devices design
 $500
4th PLACE
  EJ Shin
  Carbon-Sequestering Builidng Materials Using Rice Husk, Rice Bran Wax, Beeswax for Plant-Based Brick Manufacturing
 $500

Last updated on Apr. 21st, 2025