The Spring 2026 Colloquium Series of the KAIST School of Electrical Engineering began on March 12, 2026.
The first speaker, Jihoon Kim, Chief Research Officer of FuriosaAI, delivered a talk titled “Unlock Furiosa RNGD’s Full Potential with Kernel Programming.” In his lecture, he introduced how the dataflow-based architecture of Furiosa RNGD and its kernel programming model enable developers to directly control hardware, making it possible to build high-performance AI inference infrastructure that overcomes the limitations of conventional GPUs. The talk drew significant interest from the audience.
Upcoming lectures will include talks on quantum computing systems by Director Kihwan Kim of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) (Center for Trapped Ion Quantum Science) and Professor Hui Khoon Ng of the National University of Singapore. In addition, Samsung Display and Samsung Electronics executives Cheol Lae Roh, Jungbae Lee, and Huiwon Je will be invited to discuss technological innovation and industrial applications in AI driven innovation in display manufacturing, AI driven by semiconductor technology and next-generation communications (6G), respectively.
According to Professor Minkyu Je, who organizes the colloquium series, the program will also feature lectures by Prof. Youngjoo Lee, a recently appointed faculty member of the School of EE as well as Prof. Jooyoung Kim, a faculty member involved in entrepreneurship. He encouraged active participation from both students and faculty.
The colloquium lectures are held Thursday at 4:00 PM in Lecture Halls 1 of the Information and Electronics Building (E3-1).
