AI to Lead the “Super Gap” in Display Research
“AI-Powered Hyper-Accelerated Display R&D Forum” Concludes Successfully
- Around 220 experts from industry, academia, and research institutes gathered to discuss a major paradigm shift in next-generation R&D
through artificial intelligence technologies
- Industry case studies from Samsung and LG were shared, presenting innovative models to strengthen global technological competitiveness
SKKU announced that it successfully held the “AI-Powered Hyper-Accelerated Display R&D Forum” on March 16 at the Auditorium of Samsung Library on the Natural Sciences Campus. The event was organized to share how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming R&D methods in the display industry and to explore ways to secure leadership in future industries.
The forum drew approximately 220 participants, including experts from industry, academia, and research institutes, as well as graduate students who will become future talent in the field, demonstrating strong interest in the topic. The display industry is currently facing rapidly rising technological complexity and increasing R&D costs, while competition in the global market is becoming ever more intense. In response, Sungkyunkwan University led the discussion by presenting “innovation in research speed through AI” as a key solution to overcoming this challenge.
Professor Jang-Kun Song emphasized the necessity of adopting AI technologies in his keynote presentation, “Why AI for Display R&D?” Professor Song stated, “The AI era is an irreversible reality, and the landscape of national industry will be reshaped depending on whether data-driven design and AI agents based on original physical models are developed,” adding, “In particular, a transition to a ‘hyper-accelerated R&D system’ that incorporates AI from the foundational stage will become a differentiated strategy for our display industry.”
The special industry lectures received an enthusiastic response as leading Korean display companies presented practical use cases. Donggon Yoo, Vice President of Samsung Display’s AX Research Institute, presented trends and current developments in next-generation OLED device development using AI, while Haksoo Park, Vice President of LG Display, shared the latest technologies for optimizing manufacturing processes through AI analysis of the vast amounts of data generated on production sites.
In the presentation session that followed, experts from academia and research institutes introduced a range of advanced technologies combining AI and display science, including smart factories based on agentic AI that can make decisions and operate independently, display defect detection using deep learning, and optimization of 3D content and holographic image quality. Put in terms that even high school students can easily understand, this is an innovative approach in which AI quickly calculates in a virtual environment to find the optimal answer, replacing a process that previously required thousands of repeated experiments to be carried out in person.
The Department of Display Engineering, which organized the forum, plans to continue holding the “AI-Display Convergence Forum” annually to strengthen cooperation among domestic researchers. Department Chair Jang-Kun Song said, “As a specialized graduate school program in display, SKKU will devote itself to research and talent cultivation so that Korea can maintain its super-gap technological competitiveness in the global display market.”
Meanwhile, the event was co-hosted by the Department of Display Engineering (Specialized Graduate School Program for Display), the Gyeonggi RISE Project Q-GAIA Center, and the Education & Research Institute for Sustainable ICT Future Human Resources, and was held with support from the Korean Information Display Society, earning recognition as an exemplary case of industry-academia-research collaboration. The Specialized Graduate School Program for Display is supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology as part of a program to foster talent in national strategic industries.
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