<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">See below. Would be good to discuss this when we meet.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are we meeting today? I don’t have anything in my diary for today but due to CDT write-up it may be worth pushing the meeting to Monday or Tuesday next week.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Gopal<br class=""><br class="">—<br class="">Prof. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn<br class="">Professor of Artificial Intelligence,<br class="">Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence<br class="">Electronics and Computer Science,<br class="">University of Southampton, UK.<br class="">t: +44 (0) 2380599309<br class="">w: <a href="http://www.cmi.ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">http://www.cmi.ecs.soton.ac.uk</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">w: <a href="http://www.sramchurn.com" class="">http://www.sramchurn.com</a><br class="">l: Rm 4011, B32, University Road, Southampton.</div></div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">조민기 <<a href="mailto:minki.cho@lge.com" class="">minki.cho@lge.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[LG M & PRI] Request for AI network in University of Southampton</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">25 July 2018 at 00:29:28 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:sdr@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">sdr@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">조민기 <<a href="mailto:minki.cho@lge.com" class="">minki.cho@lge.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Dear Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; page: WordSection1;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class="">I'm Minki graduated from ISVR last year and now working at LG Electronics as the acoustical engineer.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Nowadays, many global manufacturers are applying AI Tech. in manufacturing sites to keep up with era of Industry 4.0.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">However, there are technical limitations to overcome and to generate new ideas using AI technology.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">LG M&PRI wants to extend R&D network and overcome domestic human resources.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Our idea is to establish AI laboratory in advanced academic site, such as University of Southampton with many AI researchers.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">We are considering two possible collaboration options with UoS.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Keeping in mind, it is just an initial concept stage and our Open Innovation team will further develop the concept.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Option 1) Establish AI research pool inside Campus<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> - LG : Provide research funding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> - UoS : Provide potential researchers for LG-side topics only<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Option 2) Establish laboratory (including physical space)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> - LG : Provide research funding & dispatch one or two LG employees with manufacturing-side domain knowledge<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> - UoS : Establish laboratory including 4-5 research members and research director whom UoS professor recommends<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Malgun Gothic" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">It would be great to hear any feedback about our plan.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 굴림; line-height: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Thank you for your time.</span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", "맑은 고딕"; line-height: normal; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "맑은 고딕"; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Kind regards,</span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>