Sharing cutting-edge global technological trends, presenting research achievements, and fostering industry-academia collaboration, UNIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence hosted the ‘2025 UNIST AI Technology Open Workshop‘ on October 31, 2025. Took place in the Engineering Building of UNIST, the event attracted over 400 participants, including renowned AI scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as well as representatives from LG AI Research and NC AI.
The workshop was designed to explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI technology and highlight UNIST’s research milestones projected for 2025. A variety of sessions—including keynote speeches, research paper presentations, and student research exhibitions—facilitated vibrant exchanges between academia and industry.
In his opening address, Dean Jae-Young Sim of the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence emphasized the significance of the event, “As AI begins to reshape industries across the board, this workshop provides a valuable platform for researchers from academia and industry to jointly explore future directions.”
Dean Jae-Young Sim of UNIST AIGS is delivering a welcome remark at the ‘2025 UNIST AI Technology Open Workshop.’
The keynote speeches featured prominent figures, such as Professor Joohyung Kim from UIUC, who discussed the resurgence of remote manipulation technology within robotic and physical AI environments. Following this, Group Leader Seunghwan Kim of LG AI Research’s Applied AI Research Group presented on “Agentic AI Era: Creating a Better World with LG AI,” while CEO Yeon-Soo Lee of NC AI introduced “A New Era of Creativity: The AI Revolution in Multimodal AI.”
Attendees engaged in in-depth debates on topics, such as how human-AI collaboration will evolve and the impacts of emerging AI technologies on jobs and industrial structures.
Group Leader Seunghwan Kim of LG AI Research’s Applied AI Research Group, shared insights into the latest research trends, sparking discussions on how AI advancements will transform human lives and industry ecosystems.
Subsequently, faculty members Kyungdon Joo, Jaejun Yoo, Sung Whan Yoon, Seungryul Baek, and Seulki Lee from UNIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence presented outstanding research results published in leading international journals. Their work covers key areas such as 3D scene understanding, video super-resolution, reinforcement learning, human-object interaction reconstruction from video, and Bayesian-based code optimization—introducing innovative modeling techniques that enhance both AI expressiveness and computational efficiency.
By advancing the understanding of physical environments and optimizing automated deep learning systems, these studies demonstrate broad potential applications for next-generation AI technologies.
Now in its fifth year, this annual workshop has been a driving force behind fostering an innovative AI ecosystem within the region since its inception in 2021. Dean Sim remarked, “UNIST AI Technology Open Workshop has become a flagship academic event, serving as a catalyst for AI-driven innovation through industry-academia-research collaboration.”
Since establishing the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence in 2020, UNIST has actively contributed to regional industrial innovation through initiatives such as the ‘AI Novatus Academia,’ ‘Novatus Graduate School,’ and ‘AI CEO Program,’ focusing on cutting-edge research and talent development.
