LG held an opening ceremony for the LG artificial intelligence (AI) graduate school on the 4th at K-Square in Magok, Seoul. The LG AI Graduate School is the first in Korea to receive official approval from the Ministry of Education, making it an in-house graduate school where students can earn master's and doctoral degrees.
The LG AI Graduate School will admit 11 master's and 6 doctoral students after a selection process that includes a coding test, AI modeling assessment, and in-depth interviews for employees. Eight are from LG Electronics, three from LG Energy Solution, two from LG Innotek, two from LG Display, and two from LG Chem.
The LG AI Graduate School consists of a one-year master's program and a doctoral program of at least three years, with full tuition support. For the doctoral program, publication in an SCI(E)-level journal is a graduation requirement, and graduates receive a degree in artificial intelligence.
The faculty consists of 24 adjunct professors who have carried out industry-specialized research in various labs at the LG AI Research Institute and one full-time professor with AI expertise. The curriculum is designed as a practical course that, leveraging the research infrastructure of the LG AI Research Institute and data from industrial sites, goes beyond academic outcomes to bring about changes that can be felt in the field and create tangible value.
The LG AI Graduate School offers a curriculum that covers the full cycle from developing large-scale AI foundation models to industrial applications, along with hands-on research across industry domains where AI can be applied, including language, vision, data intelligence, and materials·bio intelligence.
In particular, by collaborating with several institutes of science and technology, including Seoul National University, KAIST, DGIST, and UNIST, to conduct special lectures and seminars, it plans to break down the boundaries between industry and academia through exchanges with local talent and cultivate people who will lead practical technological innovation.
◇ LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo sends congratulatory letter and new LG Gram to incoming students
On this day, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo gave incoming LG AI Graduate School students a top-spec new LG Gram laptop equipped with EXAONE, LG's AI model, along with a congratulatory letter. He also emphasized that through the LG AI Graduate School, LG will train AI experts who place the essence of technology on "people" and pioneer human potential.
Koo said, "I extend my heartfelt congratulations and encouragement to you as you take your first step on the honorable and meaningful path of the first master's and doctoral cohort at the LG AI Graduate School, the first in Korea with government approval," adding, "Technology should not be an end in itself but a warm tool that designs 'people's smiles,' and it must ultimately be directed toward 'people.'"
Koo said, "Ahead may be an intense time in which you must endure countless nights amid the world's technologies and papers that emerge by the day, and unsolved algorithms," adding, "Each drop of sweat you shed day and night will solve the difficult problems we face and, someday, become hope for someone to rise again, and give someone the room to spend more time with their beloved family."
Koo also said, "Failure is proof that you are finding answers and the most honest process toward innovation," adding, "I will be your strongest supporter so that you can unleash your imagination without being deterred by failure and so that the technologies created here can meet the world," signaling his commitment to nurturing talent.
Reflecting Koo's talent-management philosophy, LG has built a "tailored AI education system," ranging from the "LG Discovery Lab" for teenagers, to "LG Aimers," which provides hands-on AI experience for young adults, to the "LG AI Academy," which trains employees to become AI experts, and now the LG AI Graduate School for cultivating master's and doctoral talent.