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AI Lunch Talk with Dr. Yoon Kim, SKT CTO (former Apple Siri Manager)

Nov 12, 2020

AI Institute (AIIS) resumed 'AI Lunch Talk' from this month. The first guest is Dr. Yoon Kim, the Chief Technology Officer of SK Telecom who is better known as the chief developer of Apple Siri.

  • -Guest: Dr. Yoon Kim, SKT CTO
  • -Date: 11:30 - 12:30, Thursday, November 12, 2020
  • -Venue: Bldg. 302, Rm. 105
  • -Subject: AI Challenges and Opportunities for the Post-Covid World

The number of on-site participants are limited to 50. The participants should pre-register online via https://bit.ly/34Z4CiG

All the 50 on-site participants who pre-resgister and show up on time will be served lunch as coupons of Nine Ounce Burger.

The event will also be streamed online via AIIS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/서울대학교AI연구원

About Dr. Yoon Kim
Dr. Kim was a researcher at SRI International, a non-profit research institute founded by Stanford, that is famous for incubating Siri’s original AI technology during his PhD at Stanford. In 2002, he co-founded NeoSpeech, a text-to-speech software company, where he served as chief technology officer. Among well-known NeoSpeech users is the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. In 2004, he served as the chief executive officer of Novauris Technologies, a U.K.-based startup specializing in automatic speech recognition technology. Kim joined Apple when the iPhone maker acquired Novauris in December 2013 and has since served as its senior engineering manager, involved in improving Siri’s speech recognition features. Kim received his bachelor’s degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2000. ​