SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA

- Joint research on cultivating AI talents and new digital technology
- Advancement of university administration by applying
Samsung SDS's AI platform
- Introducing Samsung SDS "ProDS" to train professional data analysts

SKKU announced that a university-Industry collaboration agreement was signed to promote the digital transformation of SKKU at Samsung SDS's Jamsil Campus on July 17 (Fri). Dong Ryeol Shin (President of SKKU) and Won-Pyo Hong (CEO of Samsung SDS) were in attendance.

With this agreement, the two parties will cooperate by conducting joint research to cultivate AI talents and to develop new technology, advancing the University's administration by applying Samsung SDS's AI platform and introducing Samsung SDS "ProDS" to train professional data analysts. SKKU plans to utilize Samsung SDS's integrated AI platform, Brightics AI, Brity RPA, and SDS Cloud. They will jointly develop education programs to cultivate AI talents. They will find tasks to secure prior technologies in the new digital technology field such as cloud.

Additionally, SKKU will introduce "Pro Data Scientist (ProDS)', an educational program to train professional data analysts and will assign it as an official certificate in the future to cultivate data analysis experts.

ProDS was officially certified by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training as civil qualification hosted/performed by Samsung SDS and its subsidiary Multi-campus.

Meanwhile, Samsung SDS has been operating the Brightics Academy, a university-industry cooperation program with SKKU since 2018, which supports various lectures and research in fields such as data analysis, machine learning, deep learning, and data modeling.

President Shin said, "By combining SKKU's excellent research capabilities with Samsung SDS's new digital technologies, we will innovate in education, research, and administration as a whole and develop SKKU into a leading global AI university."

Won-Pyo Hong said, "We will work together to strengthen the competitiveness of universities by utilizing core technologies and the platform capabilities of Samsung SDS, which are applied to various industries, and to cultivate talents that will lead the digital economy."