Youngwoon Lee

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I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley working with Pieter Abbeel. I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the AI department of Yonsei University in Spring 2024. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in CS at USC advised by Joseph J. Lim, and B.S. and M.S. in CS at KAIST advised by Sung-Eui Yoon. I received the Best System Paper Award at RSS 2023 and the Best Paper Presentation Award at CoRL 2020.

My research goal is to enable machines to learn complex real-world tasks, especially with robots. Toward this goal, I am interested in developing scalable reinforcement learning frameworks that can leverage prior knowledge and diverse data.

• Hierarchical reinforcement learning can tackle tasks with a much longer horizon via informed exploration and temporally-abstracted policy learning.
• Unsupervised learning of skills, world models, and priors can enable fast learning of a new task.

News

• [Oct, 2023] We release Open X-Embodiment Dataset and RT-X
• [Sep, 2023] One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2023
• [Aug, 2023] One paper is accepted to CoRL 2023
• [Jul, 2023] FurnitureBench won the Best System Paper Award at RSS 2023
• [Jul, 2023] I am co-organizing RSS Pioneers workshop 2023
• [Apr, 2023] My first paper at UC Berkeley is accepted to ICML 2023
• [Apr, 2023] Two papers are accepted to RSS 2023
• [Dec, 2022] I am joining Yonsei University as an assistant professor in AI in 2024
• [Oct, 2022] I defended my PhD dissertation!
• [Sep, 2022] One paper is accepted to CoRL 2022
• [Jul, 2022] I am joining Pieter Abbeel's lab at UC Berkeley as a postdoc
• [May, 2022] I am selected as a 2022 RSS Pioneer
• [Sep, 2021] One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2021
• [Sep, 2021] Three papers are accepted to CoRL 2021
• [May, 2021] One paper is accepted to RSS 2021
• [May, 2021] I am co-organizing the workshop on Combining Learning and Motion Planning at IROS 2021
• [Feb, 2021] IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment is accepted to ICRA 2021
• [Nov, 2020] SPiRL won the Best Paper Presentation Award at CoRL 2020
• [Oct, 2020] Two papers are accepted to CoRL 2020
• [May, 2020] In Summer 2020, I will be a research intern at NVIDIA Research
• [Dec, 2019] One paper is accepted to ICLR 2020
• [Nov, 2019] We release IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment for Complex Robot Manipulation Benchmark
• [Sep, 2019] One paper is accepted to CoRL 2019
• [Dec, 2018] One paper is accepted to ICLR 2019

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