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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


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