Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced on the 2nd that it will hold a workshop in conjunction with the '2025 Korea Computer Conference' hosted by the Korea Information Science Society at the Jeju International Convention Center, and share the results of nurturing generative AI talent through cooperation between academia, industry, and research.
This workshop is part of the 'Generative AI Leading Talent Training Project' hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister Yoo Sang-im) and the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP, President Hong Jin-bae), and aims to foster multimodal generative AI talents for industrial convergence. FortyTwoMaru, which has experience in commercial AI development in various industrial fields, is participating as the main company, and four regional AI (convergence) graduate schools representing the metropolitan area and the southeastern region, including Sungkyunkwan University, Pusan National University, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), and Inha University, are participating as cooperative institutions. This project aims to contribute to the fostering of generative AI experts nationwide beyond the region by providing education and practical projects in parallel so that advanced master's and doctoral level talents can acquire practical problem-solving capabilities in industrial sites.
At this workshop, the responsible professors from each partner university will present the status of their business progress and key research contents. Professor Song Gil-tae of Pusan National University will apply generative AI technology to the medical field based on multimodal patient data in cooperation with Pusan National University Hospital, and introduce the status of AI model development for automatic generation of clinical treatment charts and prognosis prediction.
Professor Lee Ji-hyung of Sungkyunkwan University is developing basic technologies in collaboration with FortiTumaru, and will present on the topic of “Development of personalized generation model technology reflecting user personas.” The Sungkyunkwan University research team is researching various detailed topics, such as persona-based adaptive text generation, conversation systems, search and recommendation systems, automatic prompt generation, and customized video generation, centered on this technology.
Professor Jae-Young Shim of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) introduces research on the development of multimodal chatbot technology that can be explained based on multimodal data related to transportation to meet transportation demands closely related to real life.
Professor In-Kyu Park of Inha University will present on the development of interfaces and automation systems that support the analysis and visualization of logistics information and the optimization of transportation and warehouse design using generative AI technology.
In addition, excellent researchers with master's and doctoral degrees will present their individual research topics that they are currently conducting with the goal of solving on-site problems at demand institutions, and discussions will also be held on ways to apply technology. FortiTumaru plans to continue providing technical support and cooperation so that their research can lead to actual industrial results.
In addition, FortiTumaru has been organically connecting education and the field so that ultra-large language model-based technologies can be safely and efficiently applied to industrial sites, focusing on LLM42, a lightweight language model specialized in specialized industrial fields, and Agentic AI technology, which is recently being widely applied in industrial sites. In particular, it is building a practical talent training ecosystem centered on the field through the design of a generative AI curriculum linked to graduate school courses, industry-academia projects, internships, and technology mentoring, and in the future, it plans to expand the scope of cooperation with demand organizations in various industrial groups to advance the generative AI-based convergence talent training model.
In the final session of the workshop, FortiTumaru CEO Dong-Hwan Kim will give a special lecture on the topic of 'The Age of Agentic AI – Talent in the Age of Generative AI'. CEO Kim will forecast future technology trends through the evolution of generative AI and AI agent technology, as well as actual cases of applying them to industrial sites, and provide insight into the new paradigm of talent development.
Park Jun-beom, head of the Digital Talent Development Center at the National Information Society Agency (NIA), who visited the workshop, said, “This workshop is a good example of talent development where industry and education are organically linked,” and added, “As generative AI technology is rapidly spreading across industries, the role of industry-academia cooperation in developing practical talent is becoming more important.” He added, “I hope that the participating researchers will go beyond their individual research and achieve tangible results that are connected to the industrial field.”
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