Kim Woo-chang Resigns as National AI Policy Secretary; Lee Ji-soo Appointed as Successor

Kim Woo-chang has resigned from his position as the National AI Policy Secretary at the Blue House, with Lee Ji-soo, a former executive at Samsung Electronics, appointed as his successor on November 2.

Kim submitted his resignation recently, citing a return to academia, and his departure was finalized on November 1. This change follows the appointment of Lee Hae-min as the Chief of AI Future Planning in August. Kim, who has served as a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at KAIST and previously held the position of Dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Service Engineering, will now return to the academic field.

Lee Ji-soo graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Industrial Engineering and earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech. He worked as a professor at Purdue University before joining Samsung Electronics' Wireless Division in 2015.

During his nearly ten years at Samsung, Lee was involved in the AI transformation of the Galaxy interface and the development of the AI voice assistant platform 'New Bixby.'