Youngwoon Lee

PhD student

University of Southern California

About me

I’m currently a Ph.D. student at USC advised by Professor Joseph J. Lim. I received B.S. and M.S. degrees from KAIST advised by Professor Sung-Eui Yoon. My research interests are in reinforcement learning and its applications in robotics and game AI. Especially, I’m interested in incorporating prior knowledge to solve real-world problems.

News

[Nov 18, 2019] We release IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment for a Complex Robot Manipulation Benchmark in Simulation
[Sep 7, 2019] Our paper about imitation learning from observations is accepted to CoRL 2019
[Dec 20, 2018] Our paper about complex skill composition is accepted to ICLR 2019

Publications

IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment for Long-Horizon Complex Manipulation Tasks

Youngwoon Lee, Edward S. Hu, Zhengyu Yang, Alex Yin, Joseph J. Lim

arXiv Preprint

PDF Code Project

To Follow or not to Follow: Selective Imitation Learning from Observations

Youngwoon Lee, Edward S. Hu, Zhengyu Yang, Joseph J. Lim

CoRL 2019

PDF Code Project

Composing Complex Skills by Learning Transition Policies

Youngwoon Lee*, Shao-Hua Sun*, Sriram Somasundaram, Edward S. Hu, Joseph J. Lim

ICLR 2019

PDF Code Project

Kids in Fairytales: Experiential and Interactive Storytelling in Children's Libraries

Seokbin Kang, Youngwoon Lee, Suwoong Lee

SIGCHI Workshop 2015

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Quadra-Embedding: Binary Code Embedding with Low Quantization Error

Youngwoon Lee, Jae-Pil Heo, Sung-Eui Yoon

CVIU 2014 (ACCV 2012)

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Stereotype-based Semantic Expansion for Image Retrieval

Jungin Lee, OSung Kwon, Youngwoon Lee, Sung-Eui Yoon

ICME Workshop 2013

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Spherical Hashing

Jae-Pil Heo, Youngwoon Lee, Junfeng He, Shih-Fu Chang, Sung-Eui Yoon

CVPR 2012

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Awards and Honors

Scholarships

Viterbi Graduate School Merit Fellowship

USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 2017-up to 4 years
Doctoral Fellowship

Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), 2011-2012
Google Academic Prize

Google Korea, 2009
Merit-based Scholarship

KAIST, 2008-2010

Awards

Distinguished MS thesis award

CS KAIST, 2013
Finalist, Honorable Mention in World Finals

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Harbin, China, 2010
Finalist, 49th Place in World Finals

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009

Teaching

CSCI-566 Deep Learning and its Application

Teaching Assistant, USC, Fall 2019
CSCI-599 Deep Learning and its Application

Teaching Assistant, USC, Spring 2019
CSCI-599 Deep Learning and its Application

Teaching Assistant, USC, Fall 2017
CS101 Introduction to Programming

Teaching Assistant, KAIST, Fall 2012
CS330 Introduction to Operating System

Teaching Assistant, KAIST, Fall 2011
CS206B Data Structure

Teaching Assistant, KAIST, Spring 2011
Leadership class for freshmen (Jang-Gu)

Instructor, KAIST, Spring and Fall 2009

Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Korea Regional

Problem Setter, 2010, 2014-2016
Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI)

Problem Setter, 2008-2015
Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI) Training Camp

Teaching Assistant, Summer 2008-2012

Youngwoon Lee

PhD student

University of Southern California

About me

News

Publications

IKEA Furniture Assembly Environment for Long-Horizon Complex Manipulation Tasks

To Follow or not to Follow: Selective Imitation Learning from Observations

Composing Complex Skills by Learning Transition Policies

Kids in Fairytales: Experiential and Interactive Storytelling in Children's Libraries

Quadra-Embedding: Binary Code Embedding with Low Quantization Error

Stereotype-based Semantic Expansion for Image Retrieval

Spherical Hashing

Awards and Honors

Scholarships

Viterbi Graduate School Merit Fellowship

Doctoral Fellowship

Google Academic Prize

Merit-based Scholarship

Awards

Distinguished MS thesis award

Finalist, Honorable Mention in World Finals

Finalist, 49th Place in World Finals

Teaching

Teaching

CSCI-566 Deep Learning and its Application

CSCI-599 Deep Learning and its Application

CSCI-599 Deep Learning and its Application

CS101 Introduction to Programming

CS330 Introduction to Operating System

CS206B Data Structure

Leadership class for freshmen (Jang-Gu)

Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Korea Regional

Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI)

Korea Olympiad in Informatics (KOI) Training Camp