KAIST Hosts Workshop on 'The Future of Generative AI and Healthcare'

KAIST (President Kwang Hyung Lee) held a workshop titled 'The Future of Generative AI and Healthcare' at its headquarters in Daejeon on the 5th.

From the left, Quanzheng Li, Professor at Harvard Medical School, Seon Kim, Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, and Gunho Na, Director of Naver Healthcare Research Institute.

Organized to commemorate the opening of the KAIST Digital Biohealth AI Research Center (Director Jongchul Ye), the workshop shared the latest research trends and application cases of artificial intelligence used in the digital healthcare field.

Professor Quanzheng Li of Harvard Medical School delivered a keynote speech on 'Foundation Models in Medicine: Large Language Models and Large Vision Models,' explaining the innovative changes that cutting-edge technologies have brought to the interpretation and utilization of medical data through clinical cases. Professor Sun Kim of Seoul National University’s Department of Computer Science gave a keynote in the 'Innovation in Bioinformatics' session on 'Predicting Drug Response Using AI Technology.' Gunho Na, Head of Naver Healthcare Research Lab, discussed medical generative AI-based research conducted at Naver and the positive impacts and potential challenges of this technology on the healthcare industry.

Jongchul Ye, Director of the KAIST Digital Biohealth AI Research Center, said, "This workshop will serve as an opportunity to promote KAIST’s generative AI-based medical AI research to industry, academia, and research institutes, and to seek innovative development directions to lead the center through collaboration with domestic and international researchers."

The KAIST Digital Biohealth AI Research Center was established last December to build foundational generative AI models in the bio-medical field.