en.Wedoany.com Reported - Hyosung has newly established an Artificial Intelligence Convergence Research Institute, appointing Maeng Seong-hyun, Professor Emeritus at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), as Vice President and its first director, aiming to drive innovation in manufacturing sites and enhance future business competitiveness.

Hyosung announced on the 8th that it has established the AI Convergence Research Institute to promote AI-driven transformation (AX). The institute will be responsible for applying artificial intelligence to enhance the manufacturing competitiveness of major subsidiaries such as Hyosung Heavy Industries, Hyosung T&C, and Hyosung Chemical, driving the development of high-value-added new products, exploring new future businesses, upgrading smart factories, and fostering an innovation culture at manufacturing sites.

Director Maeng Seong-hyun has served as an AI advisor to Hyosung for the past eight months, providing consulting on the company's digital transformation and delivering special lectures to enhance employees' AI capabilities. He previously served as a professor at KAIST's School of Computing, Director of the Collaborative Research Center at Microsoft Research, and a tenured professor at Syracuse University. His research focuses on natural language processing technology centered on lexical semantics and next-generation search technology, with a particular emphasis on text mining techniques such as experience mining and information extraction.

Since 2013, Maeng has been responsible for the third sub-project of the national flagship project Exobrain, developing question-answering system technology through the integration of concept graphs and neural networks. In 2008, he was selected as one of two Asian winners by Microsoft Research for his outstanding research proposal in the field of "Next-Generation Search—Semantic Computing and Internet Economics."

Hyosung stated that it plans to secure core technical talent required for AX transformation, as well as next-generation talent with both industrial site expertise and AI application capabilities in the future.