Opening the M3I3 Global Singularity Workshop 2020
President Sung-Chul Shin welcomed participants to the M3I3 Global Singularity Workshop 2020 on September 18.
The workshop was held as part of KAIST’s Materials and Molecular Modelling, Imaging, Informatics and Integration (M3I3) Project. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the workshop was held mainly online, and onsite participants were limited to just 50 people including President Shin and the participating professors, researchers, and students of the M3I3 Project.
In his opening address, President Shin first introduced KAIST’s Global Singularity Research Projects Initiative.
KAIST launched the Initiative last year to support innovative research and nurture research groups with global competence. Selected research projects receive a maximum of 1 billion KRW up to10 years after a series of phased evaluations.
“KAIST was the first in the world to have established such a research innovation initiative,” President Shin explained.
He added, “The M3I3 Project, which was selected in accordance with the Global Singularity Research Projects Initiative, will lead the innovation of global science and technology in the field of materials science and produce the best, first, and only research outcomes.”
Professor Seungbum Hong of the KAIST Department of Materials Science and Engineering is overseeing the M3I3 Project. The project aims to organically connect multiscale modelling and imaging, establish the structure-property and structure-synthesis libraries of novel materials through machine learning, and establish a system for the automated synthesis of novel materials.
Many leaders from both academia and industry including Executive Chair of Faraday Institution Peter Littlewood, Professor Xin Li of Harvard University, Corporate Fellow of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sergei Kalinin, Professor Peter Voorhees of Northwestern University, CTO of Asylum Research Dr. Roger Proksch, Professor Joshua Agar of Lehigh University, and Tesla researcher Andrew Ulvestad attended the workshop online and shared their insights.
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