Ho-young Jeong, head of Kyungpook National University’s Artificial Intelligence Innovation Convergence University Project, emphasized on the opening of the ‘2024 Artificial Intelligence Festival’ on the twenty seventh, “The industry-academia cooperation project is a useful opportunity for each firms and students.”
The industry-academia cooperation project through which Kyungpook National University and others participate is carried out in a way that, when an organization presents a man-made intelligence (AI) development goal, students form teams and tackle the challenge of technology development.
Through this, firms can solve problems that arise in real business by utilizing students’ creative ideas.
Moreover, students can obtain graduate school and employment opportunities through problem-solving projects closely related to practical work. Through mentoring by business executives, professors, and graduate students, AI solutions might be developed to a level that may provide actual services.
Through this, AI firms can have the chance to secure talent while solving practical problems, and students can have the chance to realize employment while strengthening their capabilities.
The AI Festival, which was held as a part of this, was evaluated as having achieved results, with greater than twice as many firms participating and holding briefing sessions and exhibitions in comparison with last 12 months.
Director Jeong Ho-young said, “This 12 months, we added an experiential exhibition together with the company briefing session to extend understanding of AI firms in various fields.”
Particularly, it was said that this 12 months, they focused on recruiting AI firms positioned not only within the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions, but additionally within the Seoul metropolitan area. Representative firms in various fields, including content, national defense, language models, and safety control, introduced their businesses to local students and faculty officials.
Director Jeong said, “Students who achieved excellent ends in last 12 months’s industry-academia cooperation project got the chance to coach for one month on the Olm Institute of Technology in Germany.” Particularly, he said, “Because of conducting a project that was near practical work, one student was in a position to get a job at Hanwha Systems, a number one Korean defense company.”
In one other example, Project Construct Up, an AI startup founded by an electronic engineering student at Kyungpook National University, received solution updates, GPU support, and human resource recruitment opportunities through industry-academia cooperation.
The skin correction AI model developed by the college’s industry-university cooperation project team was applied to Project Construct Up’s PBUP AI Self Photo Studio. The electronic engineering students who participated on this project joined Project Construct Up after graduation.
Currently, Kyungpook National University is working on nurturing AI experts with an innovation convergence consortium of a complete of seven universities, including Chonnam National University, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and University of Seoul. The goal is to create standard AI-related subjects and foster AI experts who might be immediately put into practice through various industry-academia cooperation projects.
Director Jeong said, “Kyungpook National University focuses on industry-academia cooperation projects,” and added, “The finished project was reduced to an IP dispute by issuing a patent and transferring technology.”
He also added, “As AI technology is developing at a rapid pace and AI is being introduced in all fields, we have now made it possible to perform practical AI projects no matter major.”
Meanwhile, the AI Festival, hosted by Kyungpook National University’s Artificial Intelligence Innovation Convergence University Project Group and AI Times, and co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea, will likely be held at Gyeongha Hall, Global Plaza, Daegu Kyungpook National University until the twenty eighth.
Reporter Park Soo-bin sbin08@aitimes.com
