Honglak Lee

Dr. Honglak Lee is a distinguished Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at LG AI Research, holding a concurrent position as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

With a solid academic background, Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2010 under the guidance of renowned Prof. Andrew Ng. His research is focused on machine learning, particularly in deep learning, covering a wide array of topics such as representation learning, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and optimization. Additionally, he explores application areas in computer vision, control, text processing, and audio recognition.

Throughout his career, Dr. Lee has garnered recognition for his outstanding contributions, including prestigious awards like the Google Faculty Research Award in 2011 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2015. He was also honored as one of AI's 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013 and received a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

In academia, Dr. Lee has served as a guest editor for the IEEE TPAMI Special Issue on Learning Deep Architectures and held roles as area chair and senior program committee member for various esteemed conferences such as ICML, NIPS, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, and ICLR. His research has been recognized with best paper awards at ICML in 2009 and CEAS in 2005.

Dr. Lee's educational journey includes completing a Bachelor's Degree with dual majors in Physics and Computer Science, graduating Summa Cum Laude from Seoul National University. He also obtained Master's Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Physics from Stanford University.

In his previous professional roles, Dr. Lee has made significant contributions as a Research Scientist at Google Brain, an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, and a Research Assistant at Stanford University.