2025 Ocean Engineering CAE Competition: Grand Prize (Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Award) (@Jeju, October 2025)

COELrythm (Sangyeop Lee, Gain Kim, Hoseung Lee, Mungi Choi, Yunsu Lee), supervised by Prof. Sungwon Shin, earned the Grand Prize (Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Award) at the 2025 Ocean Engineering CAE Competition. The awarding was held at the 2025 Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Ocean Engineers held in Phoenix Island, Jeju-do, on 29-31 October 2025.
The award recognizes the team’s innovative and excellent approach in developing digital twin-based tsunami damage prediction system using meteorological buoys.

In addition, one of the team members (Ga-in Kim) delivered a presentation on the team’s award-winning study titled “Development of a Digital Twin-Based Tsunami Damage Prediction System Using Meteorological Buoys,” during the 2025 Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Ocean Engineers on the same day. The presentation received positive feedback from the evaluation panel for their potential in advancing tsunami damage prediction technology.
