Samsung Advanced
Institute of Technology

Meta Vision Lab

Developing the world's most innovative imaging,
sensing and optical devices

Development of advanced optical imaging and sensing systems and algorithms,
including but not limited to RGB imaging, LiDAR, metaphotonics and biosensors.

Focus

To introduce inspiring, intelligent and reassuring solutions to improve human vision and cognition into digital imaging, remote sensing and digital health applications by creating cutting-edge optical technologies in both visible and non-visible spectrum with full-stack innovations from circuit and systems, algorithms down to semiconductor and metaphotonics device levels.

Teams

Top cross-functional talents skilled in image sensor and camera design, image processing and machine learning algorithm development, metaphotonic and bio-inspired sensor design. Working closely together with openness, inspiration and passion to solve imaging challenges and develop innovative ideas through diverse and complementary strengths.

Neural Processing Lab

Accelerating AI Workloads

Developing the world's most innovative NPU (Neural Processing Unit) architectures and algorithms.

Focus

NPL (Neural Processor Lab) is responsible to come up with world-best innovative NPU (Neural Processing Unit) architectures and algorithms to be implemented in Samsung Exynos, or other Samsung products. For this, NPL works as a part of global Samsung NPU R&D ecosystem, composed of SAIT, S.LSI, and several other overseas Samsung R&D centers.

NPL is the forerunner of these Samsung organizations to guide the future directions of Samsung NPU, by identifying major AI workloads that Samsung’s NPU needs to accelerate in 3-5 years. For this, NPL collaborates with world-renowned academia research groups in AI and NPU.

Teams

NPL is composed of motivated deep learning software researchers and hardware architecture engineers. We are a dozen of fast moving explorers in this crazy-paced AI field, and idea generators to innovate Samsung NPU’s performance. As such, we value speed, insight, and team-work. As a bridge between academia and industry, we also publish and participate in AI conferences like CVPR, ECCV, etc. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley AI ecosystem, we also sponsor and participate various local conferences like tinyML, MLSys, etc.

Advanced
Materials Lab

Pioneering revolutionary energy solutions and next-generation materials discovery

Focus

Leading cutting-edge R&D on a wide array of advanced technologies such as next-generation energy storage, electronic devices, and a high-throughput automated materials design and discovery platform.

Teams

We are a team with a wide variety of expertise related enabling future technologies. Material properties are often the limiting step to enabling new technologies such as advanced batteries, capacitors, and light emitters. Yet the discovery and implementation of new materials has historically proceeded at a glacial pace. To accelerate the transition to next generation technologies, our team combines a strong skillset with deep scientific, technical and industry expertise including chemistry, computer science, engineering, physics and more. With multidisciplinary expertise, we accelerate synergy of computation to lab to fab leading to discoveries and future breakthroughs.

Systems
Architecture Lab

Innovating HPC and AI Systems for the data
center of the future

Develop the best and most innovative technology for tomorrow's HPC and AI systems to create the data center of the future.

Focus

The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology System Architecture Lab (SAL) is focused on overcoming the memory and communication walls within High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. By taking a holistic, system-level approach to these challenges, SAL will be enabling the future of supercomputers and servers. This lab defines a system as a set of 10s-100s of racks consisting of 10,000s of compute, memory, and network components with a full system software stack including communication, AI frameworks, runtimes, and libraries, and management for booting, running and administering the machine, plus all the applications.

Teams

The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology’s System Architecture Lab (SAL) team is comprised of leading experts from a wide breadth of fields. On the hardware side of the equation, the team will focus on memory, Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS), power, cores and accelerators. For system software, the team will pursue operating systems, control systems, communication, runtimes, and frameworks. From an application perspective, domain science, application and system performance, as well as modeling will take precedence. All of these important elements will come together to contribute in designing an overall compelling system, by ensuring component design tradeoffs were made with the overall system in mind.