Youngwoon Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar
youngwoon@berkeley.edu
I will be starting my lab at Yonsei in Spring 2024.
If you are interested in working with me, please see this page.
I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley working with Pieter Abbeel. In Spring 2024, I will join Yonsei University as an assistant professor in AI. Previously, I received my Ph.D. in CS at USC advised by Joseph J. Lim, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in CS at KAIST advised by Sung-Eui Yoon.
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 and imitation 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, representations, models, and priors enables fast learning of a new task.
- Real-world applications, e.g., furniture assembly, require high sample efficiency and safe exploration. This can be accelerated with the extensive use of offline data and simulation.
News
- [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
- [Apr, 2022] I am an invited speaker on the GRASP SFI seminar series at U. Penn
- [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