"Breaking Down the Wall Between Academia and Industry"... UNIST Professor Chihyeon Lim Appointed as POSCO Holdings Chief Digital Officer

Connecting Science and Industry: AI and Robotics-Driven Innovation in Manufacturing Companies
Professor Lim to Oversee POSCO Group’s Digital Transformation (DX) Strategy and Key Initiatives

Steel giant POSCO has made a bold move toward digital transformation by recruiting a data utilization expert.

Chihyeon Lim, Professor of Industrial Engineering at UNIST (President Chong Rae Park), has been appointed as the Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at POSCO Holdings’ Future Technology Research Institute.

Chihyeon Lim, Professor of Industrial Engineering at UNIST.

Professor Lim is an expert in data utilization based on industrial engineering. He will oversee the formulation of strategies in the digital, AI, and robotics sectors for the POSCO Group, as well as the group’s key company-wide digital transformation (DX) initiatives.

This appointment is significant in that an academic expert will take on a key industry role and directly participate in AI innovation at the manufacturing site.

Professor Lim has achieved outstanding results in AI-based efficiency technologies for complex professional work and in optimizing quality and yield in continuous processes.

UNIST is building an industry-academia cooperation ecosystem by applying laboratory achievements to industrial sites, thereby driving corporate growth. In particular, the Department of Industrial Engineering at UNIST has focused on AI education and technology development that simultaneously pursue academic excellence and practical industrial applications.

With Professor Lim holding dual positions, the POSCO Group is expected to clearly define industrial field challenges as research projects and, based on this, enhance the acquisition of high-value technologies and improve the efficiency of commercializing digital, AI, and robotics solutions.

Chong Rae Park, President of UNIST, stated, “The professor’s research capabilities will be organically connected to the industrial field, greatly expanding the scope of technology exchange and industry-academia cooperation. This will have a mutually positive impact, as long as it does not interfere with education, research, or student guidance.”

A POSCO Holdings representative commented, “We expect this to be a practical collaboration that breaks down the boundaries between academia and industry. The academic achievements and analytical frameworks accumulated in the laboratory will help resolve challenges at industrial sites and accelerate innovation for manufacturing companies.”

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