Hyundai Motor Group introduced on Jan. 13 that it has recruited Park Min-woo, Nvidia’s vp of autonomous driving software program, to fill the vacant place of head of the Superior Automobile Platform (AVP) Division (president). The AVP Division head oversees Hyundai Motor Group’s autonomous driving and software-defined automobile (SDV) improvement. With the brand new chief determined only one month after former AVP Division Head Music Chang-hyun’s resignation in early December, the longer term automobile improvement schedule will acquire momentum.
The newly appointed division head shall be chargeable for accelerating automobile software program expertise improvement and commercialization throughout all SDV and autonomous driving areas, in addition to establishing methods together with mobility expertise integration and SDV technique execution. At 48 years outdated, he’ll maintain the title of the youngest president inside the group. He may even concurrently function CEO of Forty-two Dot. Park said, “Hyundai Motor Group is an organization with the optimum basis to quickly notice bodily synthetic intelligence (AI) competitiveness encompassing not solely SDV and autonomous driving but in addition robotics,” and added, “I’ll contribute to the corporate main the following era of clever mobility and turning into a world innovation commonplace.”
Park graduated from Korea College with a level in electrical engineering, then pursued a grasp’s diploma in electrical engineering and a doctoral program in laptop engineering at Pennsylvania State College. In 2015, he participated as an preliminary core member of Tesla’s Autopilot improvement workforce. He’s well-known for enjoying a number one function within the preliminary design and improvement of “Tesla Imaginative and prescient,” a camera-based autonomous driving system.
Park subsequently joined Nvidia and oversaw Nvidia’s autonomous driving expertise improvement. For eight years, he developed autonomous driving synthetic intelligence (AI) expertise into software program relevant to precise mass-production automobiles and created deep studying fashions and visible algorithms that allow automobiles to precisely acknowledge their surrounding surroundings. With promotions each two years, he’s thought-about one of many 20-30 choose executives at Nvidia who talk immediately with CEO Jensen Huang.
Hyundai Motor Group has given wings to its SDV technique execution by recruiting an professional who researched autonomous driving expertise at main large tech firms corresponding to Tesla and Nvidia. Park will kind the 2 predominant pillars of the group’s future automobile improvement alongside Manfred Harrer, head of the R&D Division, who was appointed late final 12 months.
On condition that Hyundai Motor Group and Nvidia have shaped a bodily AI alliance together with autonomous driving, Park is predicted to function a bridge connecting the 2 firms. Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun and Nvidia CEO Huang met at CES 2026 held in Las Vegas, United States, on Jan. 6, marking their second assembly in two months. Nvidia not too long ago unveiled its autonomous driving AI mannequin, Alphamayo. Whereas Hyundai Motor Group possesses its proprietary autonomous driving mannequin, Atria AI, developed by Forty-two Dot, the potential for considerably bettering autonomous driving expertise utilizing Alphamayo by Park’s recruitment can be being raised.
