Accelerating Battery R&D Innovation with AI: From Virtual Lab to Dark Factory
Session Overview
The battery industry is a highly complex field in which numerous variables—including customer requirements, materials and process conditions, safety, lifespan, and cost—interact simultaneously. This session introduces how LG Energy Solution is leveraging AI to accelerate battery R&D innovation across battery prediction, optimal design, quality verification, and intelligent manufacturing.
From the perspective of “Virtual Lab to Dark Factory,” Junho Lim will explain, through practical examples, how AI can shorten repetitive design, simulation, and verification processes while helping researchers and developers make faster and more reliable decisions.
Key Takeaways
- How AI is being applied across the battery product development lifecycle.
- The role of AI in battery prediction, optimal design, quality verification, and manufacturing intelligence.
- How a Virtual Lab can reduce repetitive design, simulation, and validation processes.
- How AI enables researchers and developers to make faster and more reliable decisions.
- Why AI is becoming a core technology that can transform development speed and product competitiveness in the battery industry.
Speaker
Head of Product Development AI Team, CDO AI/Big Data 1
Junho Lim is a Research Fellow at LG Energy Solution and leads the Product Development AI Team within CDO AI/Big Data 1. He is driving innovation in battery prediction, design, and verification by applying AI throughout the battery product development process.
He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST and has published numerous international research papers in computer vision, deep learning, and knowledge distillation. His research has received more than 4,500 citations on Google Scholar.
Before joining LG Energy Solution in 2022, he served as a startup CTO and as a team leader at Hyundai Motor Company’s AIRS Company. He currently leads the development of AI technologies and services for battery product development, including lithium plating and sudden-drop prediction, AI-based optimal design exploration, and advanced product-development AI services. In 2026, he was appointed as LG Energy Solution’s first Research Fellow in the field of AI.