Dear potential candidate of the lab (SAIL@KAIST) and the center (XAI@KAIST),

Recently we have received many applications for the graduate studentship positions at KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI and the researcher positions at Explainable Artificial Intelligence Center at KAIST. Thus, we may not respond your requests to review your applications timely.

Here is the basic guideline before you send your review request(s).

1) If you are sending your master degree application, please read the following,
It is important to justify that you are capable to write an academic paper in two years (or 4 semesters). Although our goal is to raise/graduate highly qualified students with a master degree in AI, your skill and achievements should (are better to) be qualified by external institutes, organizations and/or experts by presenting papers in top tier conferences/journals. If you lack of experience of research areas of our lab and center (time series prediction, explainable artificial intelligence, learning actions et al.), it is less likely that you would publish your own work in a top-tier (conference or journal) venue in two years. Thus, we prefer to recruit new members who are either willing to (or able to directly) work on the research topic of our own or having industrial experience in the related field. Thus, emphasizing your high GPA and your research/engineering experience (beyond of our research interests) are not very helpful to review your application. Your high GPA (without research experience) and (not-so-directly related our research) research interests do not results in good research outcome in many cases.

2) If you are sending your PhD degree application, please read the followings,
It is important to justify that you already demonstrate your research performance in any forms. That is, you have research publication(s) as a lead author or successfully completed a (not-to-trivial) engineering/scientific problems in any organizations. Thus, we expect that you have some research experience in the fields which our lab is currently seeking for and/or wish to pursue in an near future. Here, we wish you to know fundamental problems of your research problems. That is, you should know what is the fundamental (not just trendy) problems which are solved and currently tackled by contemporary researchers. Thus, simply applying a new (or recent) discovery of one field to another one does not form a fundamental problem. Thus, If you wish to apply for a PhD position in our lab, instead of seeking for what other people typically do, you should be able to deep dive to your fundamental problem. Thus, your application (purpose of research/study or research statement) should include your insightful thoughts which indicate either you are understanding the fundamental problems now or you have insights to understand the fundamental problems.

3. If you are sending your researcher application to our center, please read the followings,
We have specialized goals and tasks to achieve. Of course, we have open positions including undergraduate interns, post graduate researchers and post doc positions. The important criteria is to verify that you can work and contribute the research projects which we are currently working on by deriving valuable research outcomes.