Professor Jonghyun Choi’s research team in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University has been selected for NVIDIA’s Academic Grant Program. The NVIDIA Academic Grant Program supports innovative artificial intelligence research at universities and accredited research institutions around the world. Selected through a review process, research teams receive access to the latest GPU infrastructure and research resources free of charge. As part of the program, Prof. Choi’s team will receive credits for approximately 34,000 hours of use on a Brev cloud platform node equipped with eight H100 80GB GPUs, as well as two RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q GPUs.

Based on this support, the team plans to conduct research to improve the performance and generalization capabilities of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. VLA models are artificial intelligence models that understand visual information and language instructions and translate them into physical actions, effectively serving as the “brain” that enables robots to perform diverse tasks in various environments. Through this research, the team is expected to enhance the multi-task performance and generalization capabilities of VLA models and contribute to the development of core technologies in the field of Embodied AI.

Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=57808

Translated by: Changhoon Kang, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, changhoon27@snu.ac.kr