Park Jung-won, who is a professor at Seoul National University’s School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, materialized 2D images obtained from transmission electron microscope, which is the best microscope currently used today, as 3D images through artificial intelligence (AI) in order to know exactly what the shape is. The result from his research was published as the front-page paper on a scientific journal. Knowing the size of a nanomaterial can lead to development of a new material. Also, it has huge applications as it can be used to understand the shape of a nano-sized virus like the coronavirus and prevent it in advance.
Park Jin-ho, who is a professor at Seoul National University’s Department of Korean Language & Literature, taught an AI Korean documents with clear printed dates through neural network machine learning in order to find out the ages of old books. His research was successful as the margin of error of old books’ ages proved to be only ten years and it was a case of utilizing AI to understand ages of old documents.
AI has now become so relevant to every study. It can be used to create a new music while it can be used to understand the age of an old book for the humanities field. In the medical field, it can be used to analyze biometric data which then can be utilized for diagnosis and prognosis of diseases.
Artificial Intelligence Institute of Seoul National University (AIIS) has attempted to converge AI with various studies since its opening. X+AI workshop is the prime example. The workshop that was held inside the campus on September 24 connected various studies such as psychology, fashion, nanotechnology, development of new drug, biotechnology, engineering, language, education, administration, and dentistry to AI.
Ahn Woo-young, who is a professor at SNU’s Department of Psychology, presented a way to understand psychological conditions by utilizing mathematics, statistics, computer engineering, and AI. His method is based on creating a computer model on neural activities of normal behaviors and abnormal behaviors and understanding processes of how hidden psychology and brain neural network are changing in order to determine one’s mental state on drug or alcohol dependence.
Lee Yoo-ri, who is a professor at SNU’s Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design, put out a proposal for analyzing data of an online editing shop. She collected lists of fashion brands that were on runways for the past five years and collected and analyzed about 320,000 fashion advertisements from South Korea and other countries since 1892. Collected data corrected emotional index through image similarity-based deep learning analysis and index through product quality similarity-based machine learning analysis.
Professor Kim Jong-ahm of SNU’s Department of Aerospace Engineering applied AI and machine learning to hydromechanics and aerodynamics and proposed a possibility of establishing detailed strategies for conducting numerical study of flows in aircraft and reducing costs of design.
Professor Lee Hyeong-ki of SNU’s College of Medicine introduced an algorithm to recreate new medicines by using data on effects of medicines in order to create more effective ways for developing new medicines.
AIIS predicts that the horizon towards new studies will become wider and that AI will develop even more once interactions between various studies and AI are well established. It recently established a research center that focuses on applying AI to various fields such as neurocognitive science, AI chip, system, management, finance, health, pharmacy, and discovery of new drugs. Research teams that have already been conducting researches in these fields will work the research center.
“Interactions between various studies and AI are creating a new horizon through the X+AI workshop, various conferences, and the ten innovative research centers at SNU.” said Jang Byeong-tak who is the director of the AIIS. “These interactions will not only create new knowledge systems, but they will also have positive impact on the development of AI.”
Staff Reporter Lee, Kyungmin | kmlee@etnews.com