President Sung -mo “Steve” Kang 12. April Creative Economy, Fostering of Creative Talents, and the Social Responsibility of Research Universities 2016 International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities General Session : Insights into Higher Education: Trends & Development

2 In Search of Excellence for the Best Research University Passion and Culture Be a Trusted Partner Find High Value Problems Solve High Value Problems Source : Applied Materials Multidisciplinary Research Students-Centered Faculty-Driven Research University 2 / 15

3 Π (pi) Model Education 3 / 15

Building Innovative Start-up Ecosystem  Establishment of K-School - To foster and link innovative ideas and research for startups - To address social issues and create new markets with entrepreneurship 4 / 15

Startup KAIST with Entrepreneurship  Institute for Startup KAIST (ISK) - Provides students with lectures, mentoring, financial support, and physical space for entrepreneurship & start-up related activities - “Entrepreneur Lunch Talk”, “E*5 KAIST”, Global Idea Competition, Innovation Camps, seminars, etc.  ISK Center for Industry Outreach at Pan-gyo District - Networking : create ‘multi-dimensional business community’ - Education : on-site programs to solve imminent problems of industry - Partnership : open R&D system based on the KAIST R&D 5 / 15

Workforce, IPs Feedback Business Practice More Support Business Investment Education & Research Students S Curve – Education-Business Synergy UniversityBusiness 6 / 15

Cu-op Capstone Design 2.0  Company - University Co-operation Capstone Design - Education program for UG students that combines work experience in a company and a project-oriented credit course at KAIST ◦ Co-operative education : Identify technological difficulties in a company related to the students’ majors ◦ Engineering Clinic : Analyze the identified problems and provide solutions - To improve the conventional internship programs ◦ with problem solving for companies ◦ by fostering UG students’ creativity - UX design - Drone control (flight & postural) - Sensors/signal processing - image processing - Wireless data transmission - Software development Guide Drone for the Blind Please Don’t Freeze - Thermodynamics/heat transfer - Sensors/electronics design - magnetics/circuit design - Control/system design - Software development 7 / 15

Technologies Bridging the Gap between Hospitals & IT Industry Innovative Research : Dr. M 8 / 15

 Fusion research in the disaster sciences, with the goal reducing the hazard.  About 70 faculty members, researchers and graduate students with specialties extending from natural science, engineering, and informatics, to social sciences.  Cooperative systems with government institutions and universities.  5 research centers related to core values of disaster studies. Source: shahnawazkhan.wordpress.com blog.smartthings.comhttps:// Prediction, Detection & Containment KIDS (KI for Disaster Studies) Sewoll Ship Disaster(April 16, 2014) Disaster System Modeling & Simulation Research Center Disaster Studies & Policy Research Center Social Machine Based Information Platform Research Center Large Disaster Response & Rescue Technology Center Human Error & Resilience Engineering Center KAIST Institute for Disaster Studies (KIDS) 9 / 15

HUBO (HUmanoid + roBOt) Team KAIST won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge with its DRC-Hubo. – won $2M at this competition of disaster relief robots (sponsored by U.S. Department of Defense) The robotics lab was set up in 1985, produced HUBO in – a bi-pedal robot that walks at 1.2km/h with 41 motors at the joints that enable it to walk and utilize five independently moving fingers Second humanoid robot to be built. – research platforms transferred to Google, MIT, Purdue and many others 10 / 15

Nurturing Students towards Caring and Understanding Personalities on Happy Campus Promote students to communicate and cooperate with others through various cultural and educational programs 11 / 15

Warm Outreach to Society 12 / 15

World without Borders KAIST Engineers without Borders in Nepal IT Volunteers in Ethiopia Volunteers in Cambodia International International Conference for the Integration of Science, Technology and Society(ICIST) 13 / 15

Passion and Culture Trusted Partner Find High Value Probs. Solve High Value Probs. K nowledge Creation A dvancement I ntegrity S ustainability T rust KAIST in Search of Excellence 14 / 15

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