Vice President Junghyun Kwon, head of the Autonomous Driving Development Center at Hyundai Motor Group's AVP Headquarters [Photo provided by Hyundai Motor Group] 사진 확대 Vice President Junghyun Kwon, head of the Autonomous Driving Development Center at Hyundai Motor Group’s AVP Headquarters [Photo provided by Hyundai Motor Group]

Hyundai Motor Group said on the 30th that it has brought in Vice President Junghyun Kwon, who previously worked at Samsung Electronics and NVIDIA, as head of the Autonomous Driving Development Center at its AVP Headquarters to strengthen its competitiveness in autonomous driving technology.

Through this appointment, Hyundai Motor Group plans to accelerate the advancement of technologies across the autonomous driving sector and the execution of its future mobility strategy. Vice President Kwon will oversee everything from the development of core autonomous driving technologies within the group to their commercialization.

Kwon most recently served as an executive director and vice president at Samsung Electronics, where he led the development of intelligent robots. At NVIDIA, he was responsible for autonomous driving software development and commercialization in the computer vision and software engineering organizations. He has experience in development and commercialization across the full range of autonomous driving AI technologies, including perception software for autonomous vehicles, deep learning, machine learning, and computer vision.

Hyundai Motor Group has recently continued to recruit talent in software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and autonomous driving. On July 1, it brought in Executive Director Dongwook Kim, who led vehicle wireless communication system development at Apple and Tesla, as head of the SDV Platform Development Center at AVP Headquarters. It also appointed Executive Director Jeremy Ma, who led robot and autonomous driving software development and commercialization at Apple, Toyota Motor Corporation, and NVIDIA, as head of Silicon Valley at AVP Headquarters.

A Hyundai Motor Group official said, “By successively securing key talent in SDVs and autonomous driving, we are strengthening the technological foundation for realizing physical AI.”

This article has been translated by GripLabs Mingo AI.

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