Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Yoon Sung-ro and his research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the cooperative AI major have been selected for the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program. The College of Engineering remarked, "This selection indicates that Seoul National University has been recognized for its technological leadership at the center of global AI research," and noted, "It will be an important turning point for enhancing Korea's AI research capabilities in the future."
NVIDIA's Academic Grant Program is a project that provides hardware and software necessary for AI research free of charge to research teams selected through a rigorous screening process among AI researchers from educational institutions worldwide.
The latest AI research requires a large amount of GPU (graphics processing unit) resources, but universities are in a situation where they cannot secure sufficient amounts due to budget and power constraints. This situation is also a barrier to the training of specialized AI personnel. To alleviate this problem, NVIDIA operates the Academic Grant Program and provides GPU resources free of charge to researchers with global competitiveness.
Professor Yoon's research team aims to develop next-generation multimodal and multi-agent AI systems with reliability and robustness. The team has received a total of 26,000 GPU hours from NVIDIA in the form of research support. This will be provided through Saturn Cloud, a cloud-based high-performance computing platform, and will be utilized as a resource for cutting-edge research in the AI field.
NVIDIA highly values the innovation and social impact of Professor Yoon's project, stating, "We hope this research will widely demonstrate how NVIDIA's hardware and software platform contributes to cutting-edge artificial intelligence research."
Professor Yoon remarked, "NVIDIA's support this time will be a tremendous help for AI research requiring high-performance GPU resources," and added, "In particular, it is expected to significantly contribute to enhancing the reliability and practicality of multimodal and multi-agent technologies."