An ‘AI Skilled Worker’ That Picks Out Defects by Sound Draws Overseas Interest

A KAIST electrical engineering graduate who later studied signal processing and a Seoul National University neuroscience master’s researcher who analyzed human brainwave signals found a new field of interest in the noisy sound of factory machinery. Suji Lee, CEO of Deeply, founded the Sound AI startup in 2017 and has been pioneering industrial acoustic AI solutions. Lee said, “Since I saw brainwaves and sound as the same kind of time-series signal, I started my company with the vision of giving…