It was announced on the 13th that researchers of KAIST and Seoul National University won the Google AI Focused Research Awards Program for the first time as a Korean.
The award recipients are professor Sung Ju Hwang and Steven Whang of KAIST, and professors Bohyung Han and Wonyong Sung of SNU. Their research area includes cloud, speech recognition and deep learning.
Over the next year, the award winners are going to make a team with Google researchers and engineers to conduct collaboration projects. Google will evaluate the process results and decide on the following steps.