LG AI Graduate School, the first in-house graduate school officially approved by the Ministry of Education in Korea, recently completed approval for its Ph.D. program. Accordingly, LG AI Graduate School will hold an opening ceremony for its master's and Ph.D. programs in March next year, LG Corp. said on the 24th. Earlier, the master's program at LG AI Graduate School received approval in August.
The LG AI Graduate School master's program is operated as a one-year, three-semester curriculum aimed at training practice-oriented talent focused on problem-solving. The LG AI Graduate School Ph.D. program aims to cultivate research leaders who redefine complex problems in industrial settings and develop original methodologies to solve them, and it is operated as a dispatch program of more than three years.
Graduation requirements for the Ph.D. program include publishing at least one SCI(E)-level paper or presenting at a world-class academic conference. The focus is on producing talent who can contribute to both industry and academia. The annual enrollment quota for LG AI Graduate School is 25 for the master's program and 5 for the Ph.D. program.
LG expects LG AI Graduate School to establish itself as an educational institution that cultivates key talent with the capability to execute the artificial intelligence transformation (AX) strategy.
LG AI Graduate School is also planning a joint curriculum aimed at cultivating core Generative AI talent in collaboration with top domestic faculty from Seoul National University, KAIST, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).
In addition, LG AI Research is planning to expand its "open-call internship program" to provide graduate students in Korea with opportunities to develop world-class AI foundation models. It is also operating the "LG AI Academy," which provides level-based, tailored AI education for LG employees.
An LG AI Research official said, "This approval of the Ph.D. program is meaningful as a starting point for training research leaders who will be responsible for the future of the AI industry in Korea, beyond the establishment of a formal degree program," adding, "We will do our best to train talent that will break down the boundaries between industry and academia and lead substantive technological innovation."