한국통신학회 KICS

AI Frontiers Summit 2023

by Joongheon Kim, Korea University, Korea 

  The 3rd AI Frontiers Summit was held on July 14th 2023, at the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Society (KOFST) Building, Seoul, Korea. The Summit hosted many participants, including over 300 researchers. It encompassed many technical presentations, through keynote speeches, special sessions, top conference sessions, and customized AI-focused individual technical sessions, by top-tier AI researchers worldwide. Based on the consecutive successes over the last three years, the AI Frontiers Summit is currently recognized as a pre-eminent platform for exchanging innovative ideas and advancements in AI technologies, thereby fostering the growth of the AI research community and society. Given its inclusive nature, this summit welcomes stakeholders from various fields, including industry professionals, academicians, research institutes, and the Korean government.

  The third summit commenced with a welcome speech by KICS President Een-Kee Hong, with keynote speeches by Prof. Antonio Ortega (University of Southern California, USA), on graph-based deep learning, and Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California, USA), on IoT-based deep learning applications. Both keynote speakers are well-known professionals in the fields of theory and application of deep learning methodologies. 

  After the interesting keynote speeches, four special session presentations were conducted by Prof. Gunhee Kim (Seoul National University, Korea), Prof. Chung Hyuk Park (George Washington University, USA), Prof. Jaegul Choo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), and Prof. Kangwook Lee (University of Wisconsin, USA). These sessions included impressive and valuable presentations, in terms of diversity of topics and quality of content. The special session presentations covered large language model (LLM), AI-based healthcare systems and applications, advanced image and computer vision techniques, and pretrained language models. Furthermore, the high-quality presentations stimulated deep-dive discussions by the participants. 

  Another highlight was the top conference session presentation. Following the successful special sessions, three top conference papers were presented by Prof. Sung Whan Yoon (UNIST, Korea), Prof. Jungseul Ok (POSTECH, Korea), and Prof. Albert No (Hongik University, Korea). These papers had been accepted by AAAI 2023, NeurIPS 2022, and AISTATS 2022, respectively. The presentations covered important research topics, such as domain-invariant representations, deep reinforcement learning, and diffusion models. Based on the novelty of the top conference papers, many valuable discussions could be held during the summit. 

  Furthermore, the AI Frontiers Summit 2023 provided a rich and diverse program with the following three customized category sessions, i.e., AI Core, AI + X, and AI + Industry, where each session included three top-tier researchers. For the AI Core session, AI core technologies, in terms of image processing, natural language processing, and healthcare were presented by Prof. Seungwon Jung (Korea University, Korea), Prof. Bugeun Kim (Chung-Ang University, Korea), and Prof. JeongGil Ko (Yonsei University, Korea). For the AI + X session, AI-based networking research results were presented by Prof. Jeonghun Park (Yonsei University, Korea), Prof. Hyunggon Park (Ewha Womans University, Korea), and Prof. Sungbin Lim (Korea University, Korea). Lastly, for the AI + Industry session, various industry experts in AI technologies were invited, such as Dr. Jin-Xia Huang (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea), Dr. Sungha Choi (Qualcomm, Korea), and Dr. Daewoo Kim (Asleep, Korea), where the various industry technologies were introduced, i.e., dialog-based AI-based foreign language tutoring, test-time domain adaptation, and sound-based sleep staging. 

  Finally, I would like to express deep appreciation to the organizers, including KICS President Een-Kee Hong (Chair) and KICS Vice President Sungrae Cho (Organizing Chair), for their valuable contribution to the success of the 3rd AI Frontiers Summit.