We are delighted to share that three papers from CIDA Lab won awards at the Undergraduate/Junior Paper Competition (학부생/주니어논문경진대회) of KCC 2026 (한국컴퓨터종합학술대회), held this past June! 🎉

🥈 Excellence Award (우수상)

• Soccer Lineup Optimization based on Spatial Action Values (공간적 행동 가치 기반 축구 라인업 최적화) — Song-Yun Jeong (정송윤), Geonhee Jo (조건희)
• Learning Cooperative Multi-Agent Actions via Semantic Embedding of LLM Natural-Language Instructions (LLM 자연어 지시의 의미 임베딩을 통한 다중 에이전트 협력 행동 학습) — Junhyeok Eom (엄준혁), Hyunwoo Park (박현우)

🥉 Encouragement Award (장려상)

• Phase-aware Online Change-point Detection of Soccer Formations (경기 국면을 고려한 온라인 축구 포메이션 변화점 탐지) — Hyeokje Jo (조혁제), Miru Hong (홍미루)

This comes on top of the six papers accepted at KCC 2026, where Miru Hong also received an Outstanding Paper Award (우수논문상).

Congratulations to all of our students on this wonderful result! 🎉