Professor Shim Kyuha of the Department of Design in the School of Visual Arts was granted the Fellowship of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). The RSA is the world authority organization based in London. Established in 1754 and sponsored by Queen Elizabeth II, the RSA has three million members. World-widely, it is well known for bestowing the Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Professor Shim taught at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence(RISD) and Royal College of Arts(RCA) in London after completing his research fellowship at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also served as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and as the data visualization specialist in the Senseable City Lab at the same institution. Professor Shim, who has been working on developing a computational design that creatively employs codes and data, took the post of professor in the Department of Design in K-Arts this year.