AI Basic Competency Soongsil University is the first four-year modern university in Korea, and the first electronic calculation department in Korea has been established to take the lead in IT specialization. Soongsil University, which has served as the cradle of Korea's IT industry, is now about to leap to a prestigious university to cultivate the best convergence talents in a new era where data is the center. The Department of AI Convergence wants to develop into a department that leads the data-driven future industry by conducting convergence research in various fields based on its basic AI capabilities.

• AI technology is being applied not only to the IT field but also to all industrial fields. As big data continues to expand, intelligent services and systems that self-recognize, judge, and control the surrounding situation through its learning will lead the future industry.
• Major advanced countries, regardless of industry, academia, and research, are rapidly responding to the start of the 4th industrial revolution in the 21st century by investing their resources and manpower in intelligent systems such as artificial intelligence robots and autonomous vehicles and medical services.
• In the domestic industrial sector, the AI application business that applies the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution to systems and services is growing mainly.
• It is urgent to intensively nurture high-quality talents who have studied robots, autonomous driving, Internet of Things, and big data based on AI and software development knowledge rather than studying only specific knowledge.
• The Department of AI Convergence is differentiated in that it studies AI based on AI and provides education to integrate AI technology in various fields to foster AI-based convergent talents