LG Establishes AI Research Center in the US... "Leaping to a Global AI Research Hub"

Expansion of the Global AI Research Network

At the LG AI Research Center opening ceremony held on the 23rd in Michigan, USA, attendees are taking a commemorative photo. (From left in the photo) Eric Mikkelsen, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan; Hongrak Lee, CSAI; Michael Wellman, Chair of the Computer Science Department; Rada Mihalcea, AI Group Leader. Photo by [Photographer's Name]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] LG AI Research Institute announced on the 23rd that it has established an AI Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, expanding its global research network. When Koo Kwang-mo, CEO of LG, launched the LG AI Research Institute in December 2020, he stated that the best talents and partners would gather to freely challenge the world's difficult problems and develop into the center of the global AI ecosystem. This is now being realized.

LG announced on the 23rd that it has established the 'LG AI Research Center' in Michigan, with Honglak Lee, CSAI (Chief AI Scientist), recognized as one of the world's top 10 AI scholars, appointed as the center director. Professor Moon Tae Lee of the University of Illinois, who joined the institute earlier this year and is conducting research related to the future development of large-scale AI foundational technologies and machine learning, will also co-lead the center.

The LG AI Research Center, led by CSAI Lee, will spearhead cutting-edge AI foundational technology research and global research collaboration ecosystems, serving as a key base for LG's leap into a global AI company.

First, after the center's opening, it will collaborate with the University of Michigan on AI foundational technology research. In February, LG AI Research Institute signed a business agreement with the 'University of Michigan AI Lab' for joint research on AI foundational technologies and securing outstanding talent.

At the center opening ceremony held that day, nine professors leading AI research at the University of Michigan, including Eric Mikkelsen, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, and Michael Wellman, Chair of the Computer Science Department, attended along with LG AI Research Institute officials to share ongoing AI research topics and discuss future cooperation plans.

The center will actively conduct recruitment activities to strengthen its research capabilities by attracting capable AI talents from across North America, starting with a recruitment briefing session for AI major professors and graduate students at the University of Michigan on the 24th, the day after the opening ceremony. In the future, the center will research the latest AI foundational technologies such as deep reinforcement learning, which forms the basis of AI that thinks and judges independently, 3D scene understanding, reasoning using large-scale AI language models, and AI ethics issues including bias and fairness, together with talents recruited from the North American region.

Meanwhile, LG AI Research Institute is expanding its domestic and international research networks and is emerging as a 'global AI research hub.' Earlier this month, it established the 'SNU-LG AI Research Center' with Seoul National University to secure core large-scale AI technologies and nurture domestic AI talent, and has begun preparations to jointly host a world-class AI conference. Starting with joint fundamental technology research to solve AI challenges with the University of Toronto in Canada and expanding the research network to Seoul National University and the University of Michigan, LG is laying the foundation to become a 'global AI research hub' with world-class competitiveness.

CSAI Lee said, "The opening of the North American center is the first step for LG AI Research Institute to leap globally beyond Korea," adding, "We will expand our vision globally, broaden connections with universities and research institutions that have strengths in various research fields, and elevate AI competitiveness to the world's highest level."

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