Upstage, Hong Kong branch establishment, global expansion speed through recruitment of overseas talent
2020/12/14Established Upstage Hong Kong branch, recruited global talent including China and laid a foothold in the market
FORMER NAVER PAPAGO MODEL TEAM LEAD PARK EUN-JUNG CSO, HONG KONG BRANCH REPRESENTATIVE
(2020/12/14= Upstage) Startup Upstage (CEO Kim Seong-hoon, www.upstage.ai ) for accelerating corporate AI transformation plans to establish a Hong Kong branch this month and actively recruit AI global talent. .
Upstage plans to aggressively target Hong Kong and China through the establishment of a Hong Kong branch and expand the scope of entry into global markets including Southeast Asia such as Singapore and Thailand.
UPSTAGE APPOINTED PARK EUN-JUNG, CSO, AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH. CEO PARK EUN-JUNG LED THE MODELING TEAM OF NAVER PAPAGO, THE WORLD'S BEST TRANSLATOR, AND IS ALSO A FOUNDING MEMBER OF UPSTAGE. IN ADDITION, AS THE CTO (CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER) FOR THE R&D OPERATION OF THE HONG KONG BRANCH, KIM JAE-BEOM, THE FORMER LEADER OF KAKAO'S AI TECHNOLOGY TEAM, WAS RECRUITED.
Park Eun-jung, CEO of the Hong Kong branch, said, “Through the establishment of the Hong Kong branch, we are planning to enter the global market by absorbing excellent Chinese manpower.
On the other hand, Upstage identifies the areas where innovation is possible through AI technology among corporate problems, and provides consulting including basic AI models and systems necessary for this, and AI teams. Recently, Naver participated as an operator of 'Boost Camp AI Tech', providing practical intensive training programs in the AI field, and is striving to nurture AI talent.
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Upstage | Geun-Kyo Kim PR Director | 010-8229-7240 | keunkyo@upstage.ai
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Founded in October 2020, Upstage identifies areas that can be innovated through AI technology among corporate problems and provides consulting including basic AI model and system construction required for this. In addition, by supporting the nurturing of AI talents within customer companies, it will help companies with successful AI transformation by improving their own AI competitiveness. Furthermore, the company plans to actively design AI teams by nurturing differentiated professional talents who can be immediately put into AI business through hands-on training that melts AI business experience and solid AI basic training.
CEO Seong-Hoon Kim developed Kachine, an early search engine in Korea, and co-founded Nara Vision, Inc. Since then, while serving as a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, he won the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award 4 times, the best paper award, for research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation that converges software engineering and machine learning. He is a world-class scholar in software engineering and AI, winning influential thesis awards. He is also widely known as a deep learning instructor for everyone, which has recorded more than 6 million views in total.
Upstage's co-founders include CTO Lee Hal-seok, who led Naver Visual AI / OCR and achieved global results, and CSO Park Eun-jung, who led the model team of Papago, the world's best translator.