AKPA: OYRA Winners
| Year | Recipients | Ph.D. Institution | Current Affiliation | Research Area |
| 2020 | Soonwon Choi | Harvard Univ. | Univ. of California Berkeley | AMO Theory |
| Joon Sue Lee | Penn State Univ. | Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville | Condensed Matter Experiment | |
| 2019 | Hyowon Park | Rutgers University | University of Illinois at Chicago | Condensed Matter Theory |
| Young Jin Kim | Indiana University Bloomington | Los Alamos National Lab | Condensed Matter Experiment | |
| 2018 | Myoung-Hwan Kim | SUNY, Buffalo | Texas Tech Univ. | Condensed Matter Experiment |
| 2017 | Tae Min Hong | UC Santa Babara | University of Pittsburgh | Experimental particle physics |
| 2016 | Doojin Kim | University of Maryland | University of Florida | Theoretical particle physics |
| Se Kwon Kim | Johns Hopkins |
UCLA |
Condensed Matter | |
| 2015 | Donghui Jeong | University of Texas at Austin |
Pennsylvania State University |
Astrophysics |
|
Donghun Lee |
Ohio State University | University of California, Santa Barbara | Condensed Matter | |
| 2014 |
Dohun Kim |
University of Maryland | Wisconsin | Condensed Matter |
| Hyung Jeen Jeen | University of Florida | Oak Ridge National Lab | Condensed Matter | |
|
2013
|
Sukbum Chung |
UIUC | UCLA | Condensed Matter |
|
Gyu-Boong Jo |
MIT | HKUST | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
|
2012
|
Yong-Yeol Ahn |
KAIST | Indiana Univ. | Statistical Mechanics |
|
Na Young Kim |
Stanford | Stanford | Condensed Matter | |
| 2011 |
Jong-kyu Park |
Princeton | Princeton | Plasma Physics |
|
Cheol-Hwan Park
|
UC Berkeley | Seoul National U. | Material Science | |
| 2010 |
Ian Woo Kim |
KAIST | U. of Michigan | Theoretical particle physics |
| 2009 |
Kyoungchul Kong |
U. Florida | U. of Kansas | Theoretical particle physics |
| 2007 |
Tuson Park |
U. Illinois | Sungkyunkwan U. | Condensed Matter and thermal physics |
| 2006 |
Nam Jung Hur |
Rutgers / LANL | Inha U | Condensed Matter and thermal physics |
| 2005 |
Inseok Song |
Georgia/Gemin Observatory | U. of Georgia | Astrophysics |
| 2004 |
Sang-Ho Kim |
UCLA | Kongju National U. | Nanomaterials |
| 2003 |
Hwang Lee |
Texas A&M/JPL | LSU | Quantum Computing |
| 2002 |
Philip Kim |
Harvard | Columbia | Superconductivity and Nanoscience |
| 2001 |
Taekjip Ha |
UC Berkeley | U. Illinois | Biological Physics |
| 2000 |
Seung-Hun Lee |
Johns Hopkins/NIST | UVA | Condensed Matter |
| 1999 |
Yong Baek Kim |
MIT | U. of Toronto | Condensed Matter |
| 1998 |
Piljin Yi |
Caltech / Cornell | KIAS | Field theory |
| 1997 | Insu Yi | Harvard | Novin International | Astrophysics |
| 1996 |
Kyungwon An |
MIT | Seoul National U. | Optics |
| 1995 |
Sebastian Seung |
Harvard | MIT | Computational Neuroscience |
| 1994 |
Byungwoo Park |
Harvard | Seoul National U. | Electromaterial Physics |
