Hyundai Motor Group's global software center, FortyTwoDot, announced on October 2 that it has recruited three key leaders from global IT companies to enhance its software-defined vehicle (SDV) technology capabilities.
In early September, Angelo Corsaro joined the Silicon Valley office as a chief research scientist. Corsaro is an expert in distributed computing, real-time systems, and robotics middleware. He also has expertise in the 'cloud-to-thing continuum,' which connects everything from the cloud to devices. At FortyTwoDot, Corsaro plans to improve next-generation data connectivity and scalability across SDV, cloud, and intelligent mobility platforms.
Kim Jae-young, group lead of the GLEO AI model, also joined at the end of last month. Kim has 15 years of experience researching voice conversational AI and signal processing technologies at global IT firms, including Google DeepMind, Amazon, Samsung Electronics, and Intel. He has led pioneering research in audio-native AI that understands and generates speech directly without going through text. He will develop speech recognition (STT) and speech synthesis (TTS) technologies optimized for in-vehicle noise and multi-speaker environments, as well as build low-latency audio processing architectures.
Chao Fang joined the FortyTwoDot Silicon Valley office in September as the SV VLA team lead. While working as a senior engineer in NVIDIA's autonomous driving division, he contributed to the development of autonomous driving foundation models. Previously, he was responsible for technology development in real-time computer vision, prediction, and path planning at the Toyota Research Institute and Argo AI. At FortyTwoDot, he will lead research that combines visual information recognition, language-based reasoning, and behavior generation into a single model, also advancing pioneering AI technologies into practical autonomous driving solutions.
With these new hires, FortyTwoDot aims to strengthen its global leadership in key areas such as distributed computing, vehicle software platforms, voice AI, and autonomous driving. The combined research, development, and production experience of these three experts will accelerate innovation across software and mobility, supporting the group's transition to SDV.
FortyTwoDot stated, "By combining the expertise of these professionals with FortyTwoDot's AI and software capabilities, we will lead global technology standards in SDV, autonomous driving, and intelligent mobility."
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