Hyunjong Ok, a Master’s student from Professor Jaeho Lee’s research lab at POSTECH’s Department of Electrical Engineering, won the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Fall Conference of the Korean Artificial Intelligence Society (KIISE) for his paper titled “AudioBERT: Audio Knowledge Augmented Language Model.” The award was also shared with Yusoho, a student from Inha University, who participated in the research through a winter research program.

The paper was highly praised for discovering, through the creation of an open-source dataset, that language models struggle to understand auditory knowledge. It proposes a search-based algorithm to address this issue, marking a significant contribution to the field.

The KIISE Fall Conference is an academic platform where AI researchers and industry professionals share the latest research results and technological trends. Held annually in the fall, the 2024 conference featured keynote speeches on cutting-edge AI topics such as foundation models, AI security, and image generation, along with various research presentations.