LG AI Graduate School to Become an Official Graduate School...Full-Scale Preparation for Ministry-Accredited Degree Programs

Transition from In-House Training to an Official Graduate School
Ministry of Education Accreditation Completed, Master’s and Doctoral Degrees Conferred
Official Opening in March 2026, Full-Scale AI Talent Development

The LG AI Graduate School, which completed the Ministry of Education’s accreditation process late last year, is set to officially open its regular semester in March 2026. After receiving accreditation at the end of last year, it plans to begin full-scale operation of its official degree programs starting in March 2026 together with master’s and doctoral students who have passed the entrance examination.

On the 3rd, LG held a degree-awarding ceremony at the LG AI Graduate School located in K-Square in Magok, Seoul, for two graduates who completed the degree program offered as an in-house course. This event was the final degree-awarding ceremony before the LG AI Graduate School transitions into a master’s and doctoral degree-granting institution officially accredited by the Ministry of Education.

At the event, Woo Hyung Im, Co-Head of LG AI Research, said, "I extend my deep respect and congratulations to all the graduates who have become key agents of change with AI capabilities while balancing work and study," adding, "I now look forward to you leading LG’s future through continuous learning and execution in your respective fields."

This time, Youngtak Na, Principal Research Engineer of the AI Software Platform Development Team at LG Electronics, and Yoonho Shin, Senior Research Engineer of the Service AI Research Team at LG Uplus, received their degrees. They completed a curriculum equivalent to that of an officially accredited graduate school and achieved outstanding research results, including publishing papers in SCI-level journals.

LG Corporation held the final degree conferment ceremony for its in-house program at the LG AI Graduate School in Magok, Seoul on the 3rd. LG Corporation.

Principal Research Engineer Na studied a new methodology that can dramatically improve the accuracy of AI’s image recognition. By jointly utilizing and mutually complementing the information obtained by AI from a single image and the information obtained by comparing two images, the technology is regarded as being able to help AI recognize road conditions more accurately in the field of autonomous driving.

Senior Research Engineer Shin developed a technology that, when a Vision-Language (VL) model recognizes the actions of a person in a video, enables a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate intuitive explanations and link them. This technology is a new technique for enhancing video recognition performance, and it has demonstrated its potential by outperforming top global models in the "action spotting" evaluation, which measures an AI’s ability to identify the exact moment a specific motion occurs within a video.

The LG AI Graduate School was established in March 2022 as an in-house graduate school to train experts capable of solving real-world industrial problems with AI, and over the past five years it has produced 13 master’s graduates and 2 doctoral graduates. The LG AI Graduate School completed the Ministry of Education’s accreditation process late last year, becoming the first in-house graduate school in Korea authorized to confer official master’s and doctoral degrees. In March 2026, it plans to embark on a new chapter together with 11 master’s students and 6 doctoral students who have passed the entrance examination.

Hyeyeon Jung, Head of the Academy Team at LG AI Research, said, "The LG AI Graduate School has so far focused on nurturing LG’s AI experts and creating differentiated value in customer experience," adding, "Going forward, we will do our utmost to break down the barriers between industry and academia and to cultivate research leaders who will drive the future of Korea’s AI industry."

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