The research team of Professor Park Hyung-min, Department of Electronic Engineering,

Wins the Grand Award in the Open Division of Field 1 and an Excellence Award in Field 2 at the '2023 Korean AI Competition'

▲ (Top row, from left) Professor Park Hyung-min, Department of Electronic Engineering; Park Jung-gyun, master's student

(Bottom row, from left) Park Young-hoo, Jung Won and Kim Jang-yeon, master's students

At the 2023 Korean AI Competition, master's student Park Jung-gyun of the Department of Artificial Intelligence (DHE) (supervisor: Professor Park Hyung-min) won the Grand Award in the open division of Field 1 (speech recognition performance evaluation), which carries the Minister of Science and ICT Prize, while Team IIP (master's students Park Young-hoo (AI Convergence), Jung Won (DHE) and Kim Jang-yeon (DHE) of the Department of Artificial Intelligence) won an Excellence Award in Field 2 (corporate problem-solving: Douzone Bizon).

▲ Park Jung-gyun, master's student, winner of the Grand Award in the open division of Field 1

▲ Team IIP, winners of the Excellence Award in Field 2

The 2023 Korean Artificial Intelligence Competition (subtitle: 'Artificial Intelligence Opens Its Ears to Every Voice'), hosted and organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA), was held to encourage the advancement of Korean-language AI technology and the creation of new services using AI training data opened on AI Hub, and to help university students and young people grow into AI talent.

The competition was divided into Field 1 (speech recognition performance evaluation) and Field 2 (corporate problem-solving); Field 2 evaluated AI solutions capable of solving real-world problems in finance and in consultation for non-face-to-face medical care.

Across both fields, a total of 302 teams of students, start-ups and others took part, a competition ratio of about 15 to 1. The competition was run as a real-time online leaderboard, and 21 teams and 42 individuals received awards.

The award ceremony was held on Friday 17 November, where Park Jung-gyun received 10 million won and Team IIP 7 million won in prize money along with their awards.

▲ Group photograph of the winners at the 2023 Korean AI Competition