Ha-Wook Jeong, Vice President of the autonomous driving software startup RideFlux , received a Presidential Commendation in recognition of his contributions to innovation in autonomous driving AI technology. Vice President Jeong received a Presidential Commendation at the ceremony for the 61st Invention Day held at COEX Magok in Seoul on the 19th. The Invention Day Merit Awards are presented at an event hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office and organized by the Korea Invention Promotion Association , recognizing inventions and technological innovation achievements that have contributed to national industrial development. Vice President Jeong was recognized for his contributions in independently developing perception and prediction technologies, which are core AI technologies for autonomous driving, and in leading the nation's first unmanned autonomous driving permit based on them. 107 Patent Applications… Advancement of Domestic Autonomous Driving Technology Vice President Jeong joined the company in 2018 and has led the localization of Level 4 fully autonomous driving technology. To date, he has built technological competitiveness by directly participating as an inventor in the process of filing 107 domestic and international patents and registering 81 of them. In particular, attention is being drawn to the public release of an autonomous driving dataset of approximately 400,000 images, which exceeds Google Waymo's public dataset (230,000 images), in order to expand the autonomous driving technology ecosystem. The industry evaluates this as a case that contributed to expanding the foundation of domestic AI and autonomous driving research. Global technological competitiveness has also been proven. The research team led by Vice President Jeong ranked third globally in the End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving category, where AI independently performs tasks ranging from perception to control, at the 'Waymo Open Dataset Challenge' held at the CVPR 2025 Autonomous Driving Workshop, a global AI conference. In addition, he serves as an adjunct