IVADO strengthens ties with Korea at the Korea-Canada Conference

The Korea-Canada Conference (CKC), held in Montréal last week, provided IVADO with an opportunity to strengthen strategic exchanges with several Korean organizations visiting officially.

A key highlight was the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between IVADO, Université de Montréal, the City of Busan, and the AI Grand ICT Research Center at Dong-Eui University. This agreement lays the groundwork for collaboration in research on ethical and responsible artificial intelligence. The partnership aims to foster synergies between the academic and technological ecosystems of both countries, including through joint research, teaching initiatives, and activities promoting best practices in academic–industry collaboration.

Another major moment was the keynote lecture delivered by Foutse Khomh, IVADO’s Co-Scientific Director, Scientific and International Affairs, and professor at Polytechnique Montréal. Titled “Towards Reliable Machine Learning Models for Code”, his presentation addressed the reliability of large language models (LLMs) applied to code generation tasks. He discussed his team’s recent work on understanding what these models learn, how they reason about source code, and the conditions under which they fail — key elements in the design of safer, more robust AI-assisted programming tools. He also introduced PrismBench, a new dynamic evaluation framework developed by his research team to rigorously analyze and characterize LLM failure modes across different application contexts.

IVADO also hosted a delegation from the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT), a Korean government agency responsible for R&D policies in industrial technologies. The discussions opened up several avenues for collaboration in innovation support and technology transfer.

Finally, in collaboration with Jeonbuk Technopark, IVADO organized a networking session with researchers from its community. The event, followed by a cocktail reception, enabled the launch of promising exchanges with Korean partners.

These activities are part of IVADO’s ongoing efforts to catalyze international collaboration in artificial intelligence, at the intersection of research, industry, and education.