UNIST, Recruiting 6th Class of ‘AI Novatus Academia’

UNIST is recruiting the 6th batch of trainees for the ‘AI Novatus Academia,’ a program designed to train AI specialists tailored to industry needs.

AI Novatus Academia is an industry AI specialist training program operated at the UNIST AI Innovation Park. The program trains more than 50 field engineers from industry into AI experts every year.

The 6th batch of trainees will be recruited online for two weeks from the 12th to the 23rd of this month. The training period is scheduled to run for about five months, every Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., starting July 7.

Professors from the UNIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence will directly deliver lectures for AI Novatus Academia. During eight weeks of theoretical education, participants will acquire the basics of AI, the latest technologies, and industrial application cases.

After completing the basic education, participants will engage in 12 weeks of project-based learning, where they will directly solve problems from their own companies under the guidance of professors, experiencing processes such as data collection, preprocessing, AI model development, and validation.

Promotional Poster for Recruitment of the 6th Class of 'AI Novatus Academia' Trainees.

AI Novatus Academia is open to industry workers employed at workplaces located in the Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam (Bu-Ul-Gyeong) region. For employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, the tuition fee is fully supported, while employees of large corporations must pay a tuition fee of 1 million KRW per person.

Applications for participation can be submitted via a separate link, and detailed inquiries about the training can be made to the UNIST AI Innovation Park Secretariat.

Launched in 2021, the UNIST AI Innovation Park is promoting various projects such as training AI experts for the regional industrial field through building an ecosystem of education, research, and startups, conducting joint AI industry-academic research with local companies, and supporting the settlement and startup growth of AI specialized startups in the region.

Since its launch alongside the AI Innovation Park, AI Novatus Academia has involved 135 companies, trained 198 AI personnel, and developed 61 AI models.

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