Elice Project - Online Computer Science Education Platform

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Big data, deep learning, AI, cloud computing are of increasing importance in many industries, ranging from precision medicine, legal affairs, FinTech among others. 


Universities are challenged to help prepare students to be equipped with knowledge and skill sets for them to be effective workforce in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. While the demand for education in this area is increasing, there are not enough teachers to provide education. At KAIST the School of Computing has developed and introduced an innovative platform "Elice" to meet such needs.


This talk will provide the Elice's principles, applications, effectiveness and technology transfer to other institutions.
 

About the panel speaker:

Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1975, and was a member of technical staff and technical supervisor at AT&T Bell Labs until he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1985. At UIUC, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering, associate director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Compound Semiconductor Microelectronics, and department head. From January 2001 to February 2007, he was dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From March 2007 to June 2011, he was chancellor of the University of California, Merced, the newest and 10th UC campus.

In February 2013, Dr. Kang became the 15th president of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He has published over 450 journal and conference papers, co-authored ten books and holds 15 patents. He has received numerous awards for his technical contributions and educational leadership. He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Korea and Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He has served as a member of the Presidential Council on Science and Technology of Korea, the Global University Leaders Forum, and a chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Future of Electronics. He also served on the advisory council of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Politecnico di Torino and the Qatar Foundation.