KRAFTON, Inc. has introduced that Kangwook Lee, Head of KRAFTON AI has been appointed as Chief AI Officer (CAIO), a newly created government place, tasked with overseeing the corporate’s AI analysis and growth actions.
The CAIO function goals to advance AI R&D and strengthen mid-to-long-term innovation technique, PTI reported, citing the corporate.
Who’s Kangwook Lee?
Former Affiliate Professor on the College of Wisconsin-Madison, Lee acquired his PhD in 2016 from the Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science division at UC Berkeley. He beforehand served as an Affiliate Professor within the Electrical and Laptop Engineering Division on the College of Wisconsin-Madison.
Since 2022, Lee has been conducting analysis in AI fields equivalent to deep studying and machine studying, whereas additionally serving as Head of KRAFTON AI.
He has targeting redesigning KRAFTON’s AI analysis framework to spice up the corporate’s innovation efforts, spearheading R&D in important AI fields equivalent to machine studying (ML), language fashions (LM), pure language processing (NLP), reinforcement studying (RL), and multimodal fashions.
In 2025, Lee led a challenge at KRAFTON in partnership with NVIDIA to introduce CPCs (Co-Playable Characters), creating new gameplay potentialities by permitting real-time interplay between gamers and AI.
Lee has been main key innovation initiatives at KRAFTON throughout the proprietary AI basis mannequin challenge since final yr. Not too long ago, he resigned from his tenured place on the College of Wisconsin-Madison to completely decide to KRAFTON’s AI analysis and growth, in addition to its mid- to long-term innovation technique. Targeted on advancing recreation AI analysis, Lee goals to develop technological capabilities at KRAFTON.
By means of Lee’s function, KRAFTON plans to additional strengthen its recreation AI analysis and growth framework and develop its mid-to-long-term enterprise technique.
About KRAFTON
Based in 2007, KRAFTON operates a world community of 19 artistic studios, together with PUBG STUDIOS, Hanging Distance Studios, Unknown Worlds, Neon Big, KRAFTON Montréal Studio, Bluehole Studio, RisingWings, 5minlab, Dreamotion, ReLU Video games, Flyway Video games, Tango Gameworks, inZOI Studio, JOFSOFT, Eleventh Hour Video games, OmniCraft Labs, Olivetree Video games, Loonshot Video games, and 9B STUDIO.
Every impartial studio goals to draw extra followers by increasing KRAFTON’s platforms and providers.
The corporate is answerable for premier recreation IPs, together with PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, PUBG MOBILE, PUBG: BLINDSPOT, inZOI, Subnautica, MIMESIS, Hello-Fi Rush, Dinkum, TERA, My Little Pet, and extra.
In India, KRAFTON is answerable for main cell video games equivalent to BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA (BGMI), which has crossed 250 million downloads, in addition to Bullet Echo India, Highway To Valor: Empires, and CookieRun India. Since 2021, KRAFTON has invested over $200 million in varied Indian startups centered on interactive leisure, gaming, Esports, and know-how, aiming to strengthen India’s start-up scene, the corporate mentioned.