KAIST Opens AI Semiconductor Graduate School

KAIST held the opening ceremony of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor on the afternoon of the 28th at the Information and Electronics Engineering Building on its Daejeon campus. (From left) Junhyuk Kang, Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Hyeongjun Kim, Director of the Next-Generation Intelligent Semiconductor Project Group; Hoejun Yoo, Professor in charge of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor; Jangwoo Lee, Mayor of Daejeon; Kwanghyung Lee, President of KAIST; Seungrye Cho, Member of the National Assembly; Seongbae Jeon, President of the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation; Dohyun Kang, Director of Policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT; Seungchan Bang, President of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. Photo by KAIST

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) held the opening ceremony of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor on the afternoon of the 28th at the Information and Electronics Engineering Building on its Daejeon campus.

The KAIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor (Head Professor Hoejun Yoo) was established after being selected in May for the Ministry of Science and ICT's project to train advanced master's and doctoral talents in the field of artificial intelligence semiconductors. Starting academic operations this fall semester, 12 master's and doctoral students are currently enrolled, and the school plans to produce 150 talents over the next five years.

Earlier, the Ministry of Science and ICT selected KAIST, Seoul National University, and Hanyang University as artificial intelligence semiconductor graduate schools in May this year as part of the "Advanced Talent Training for Artificial Intelligence Semiconductors" project. The government plans to support each graduate school with 3 billion KRW annually until 2028 to train 495 master's and doctoral talents.

KAIST has formed an industry-academia cooperation consortium with global leading companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, numerous startups newly leading the AI semiconductor field, and research institutes like the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute to enhance AI semiconductor design capabilities while strengthening practical research reflecting industry demands.

Research exchanges with overseas universities such as Columbia University, Cornell University, ETH Zurich, and the University of Tokyo, as well as a global internship program in cooperation with Silicon Valley AI semiconductor companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Google, and Apple, are also provided.

KAIST President Kwang Hyung Lee stated, “With the opening of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor, we expect to nurture talents who will lead the world in all semiconductor fields including semiconductor processes and design.”

Kang Dohyun, Director of the Information and Communications Policy Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, "We will actively support young master's and doctoral talents trained through the AI semiconductor graduate school to grow into top-tier experts leading innovative technology development such as AI model compression and low-power AI semiconductors."

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