Brooklyn-based Joint Research Will Be Led by Prize-Winning AI Researchers Yann LeCun and Kyunghyun Cho
Republic of Korea Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho and New York University President Linda G. Mills today announced the establishment of the Global AI Frontier Lab. The Lab—which will be based in NYU facilities in Brooklyn and draw top AI researchers from the U.S., Korea, and around the world—is the latest advance of the joint research effort launched in 2023. The Institute of Information and Communication Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) President Hong Jin-bae and NYU signed a Memorandum of Agreement to establish the Global AI Frontier Lab and to outline its structure and operating guidelines.
The Global AI Frontier Lab will be led by two AI scholars from NYU’s esteemed Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science: Yann LeCun, a Turing Prize-winning professor at NYU and Meta’s chief AI scientist, and Kyunghyun Cho, winner of the Samsung Ho-Am Award for Engineering, senior director of Frontier Research at Genentech, and a graduate of KAIST.
An open call for Korean researchers who wish to participate in the Global AI Frontier Lab and conduct world-class joint research with NYU was issued earlier this week by IITP in Korea (more details may be found on the IITP website). The Memorandum of Agreement will provide support for Korean researchers to participate in the joint research, as well as detail the structure of the research project and delineate priority-setting for specific joint research undertakings. The new lab is expected to be established in almost 13,000 sq. ft. of space in 1 MetroTech Center, adjacent to NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and NYU’s 370 Jay Street technology and multimedia center.
Minister Lee Jong-ho said, “The Global AI Frontier Lab is the first step in a new international joint research paradigm and will serve as a stepping stone for Korea’s AI G3 leap and global solidarity and expansion,” adding, “We will provide policy support so that researchers can come together and actively contribute to AI innovation and sustainable AI development.”
NYU President Mills said, “These are important steps forward in ensuring the success of this joint research effort—an agreement on the Global AI Frontier Lab’s structure, world-class AI scholars in place as leadership, and a location in Downtown Brooklyn. Altogether, an outstanding combination. This project builds on NYU’s assets as an unrivaled global institution and on a foremost area of scholarly strength in science and technology for NYU. We and our Korean partners are very pleased with the development of this project; I am confident that this global partnership, steeped in scholarly excellence, will make a transformative contribution to the field of artificial intelligence.”