Awards & Achievements
The Biointelligence Lab has a distinguished record of recognition across international competitions, academic honors, and national awards. From RoboCup victories to government honors, our team continuously pushes the frontier of AI research.
Competition Wins
2026
AI Co-Scientist Challenge Korea — 우수상
AI Co-Scientist Challenge (Ministry of Science and ICT) — Republic of Korea
Lab team led by doctoral student Yun Hye-jeong received the Excellence Prize (우수상) at the AI Co-Scientist Challenge hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
2024
RoboCup@Home 2024 — OPL 2nd Place
RoboCup@Home 2024 — Eindhoven, Netherlands
Team Tidyboy (SNU Biointelligence Lab) achieved 2nd place in the Open Platform League (OPL) at RoboCup@Home 2024, scoring 7,495 points.
2023
RoboCup@Home 2023 — DSPL & OPL Champion
RoboCup@Home 2023 — Bordeaux, France
Team Tidyboy (SNU & Pusan National University) won both the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL) and Open Platform League (OPL) at RoboCup@Home 2023, competing against 2,500 participants from 45 countries.
2022
RoboCup@Home 2022 — SSPL Champion
RoboCup@Home 2022 — Bangkok, Thailand
Team Tidyboy won the Social Standard Platform League (SSPL) championship at RoboCup@Home 2022.
2022
R-BIZ Challenge 2022 — 대통령상
제17회 국제로봇콘테스트 R-BIZ Challenge — 제우스 산업용 로봇 ZERO 미션 챌린지 — Republic of Korea
Team SNU-BI (팀원: 윤혜정, 박예솔, 김준오, 유영재) won the Presidential Award (대통령상), the top prize at the 17th International Robot Contest & R-BIZ Challenge in the Zeus Industrial Robot ZERO Mission Challenge category.
2021
RoboCup@Home 2021 — DSPL Champion
RoboCup@Home 2021 (Virtual) — Virtual
Team Tidyboy won the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL) championship at the virtual RoboCup@Home 2021.
2020
WRS 2020 — 1st Place
World Robot Summit 2020 — Partner Robot Challenge (Remote Participation League) — Virtual (Japan)
Team Tidyboy won 1st place in the Partner Robot Challenge Remote Participation League at the World Robot Summit 2020.
2019
RoboCup@Home 2019 — DSPL 2nd Place
RoboCup@Home 2019 — Sydney, Australia
Team Tidyboy achieved 2nd place in the Domestic Standard Platform League (DSPL) and received the special "Dishwasher Award" at RoboCup@Home 2019.
2018
NAACL Visual Storytelling Challenge 2018 — 1st Place
Visual Storytelling Challenge (VIST) at NAACL 2018 — New Orleans, USA
Team SnuBiVtt (허민오, 김태형, 박경화, 손선일) achieved 1st place in all 6 human-evaluated categories at the Visual Storytelling Challenge held at NAACL 2018.
Academic & National Awards
2023
Distinguished Service Award — IEEE CIS
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Professor Byoung-Tak Zhang received the Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field.
2018
국가연구개발우수성과 100선
Ministry of Science and ICT — Republic of Korea
Professor Byoung-Tak Zhang's cognitive architecture research was selected among the Top 100 National R&D Outstanding Achievements by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
2017
홍조근정훈장 (Order of Service Merit, Red Stripes)
Korean Government — Republic of Korea
Professor Byoung-Tak Zhang was awarded the Red Stripes Order of Service Merit (홍조근정훈장) by the Korean Government for his contributions to Information & Communications.
2006
Okawa Research Grant
Okawa Foundation — Japan
Professor Byoung-Tak Zhang received the Okawa Research Grant Award in recognition of outstanding research in information and telecommunications.