Youngjoon Lee

AI Research Scientist · Seoul · Republic of Korea · yjlee22@kaist.ac.kr

Hi, I’m Youngjoon Lee, a passionate self-taught AI research scientist from Republic of Korea. I’m currently a technical research personnel for alternative military service at Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA), Republic of Korea. The ongoing research goal is to develop future-oriented core technology and processing technologies for defense data. My recent research interests lie in the field of distributed machine learning and learning theory, with a specific focus on federated learning.


Experience

Researcher

Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Defense Data Research Group, Researcher

April 2023 - Present

Researcher

Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Cheonan-si, Republic of Korea

Smart Manufactoring System R&D Department, Researcher

September 2021 - March 2023

Education

KAIST

M.S., Electric and Electronic Engineering
Advisor: Joonhyuk Kang
Lab: ART(Advanced Radio Technology)
Thesis: Statistical Heterogeneity-aware Federated Approach and Application
September 2019 - August 2021

UNIST

B.S., Electric and Electronic Engineering (1st)
Biomedical Engineering (2nd)
magna cum laude
March 2015 - August 2019

FH Technikum Wien

Exchange Student Program, Biomedical Engineering
Feburary 2018 - June 2018

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Foreign Language Skills
  • Native in Korean
  • Fluent in English

Publication

Journal

· Youngjoon Lee, Jinu Gong, and Joonhyuk Kang, “Federated Transfer Learning via Over-the-Air Computation”, IEEE Commun. Lett., preparing.

· Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, Jin-Hyun Ahn and Joonhyuk Kang, “Accelerated Federated Learning via Greedy Aggregation”, IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 2919-2923, Dec. 2022.

Conference

· Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, and Joonhyuk Kang, “Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning via Reverse Aggregation”, IEEE V. Conf. Commun. (VCC), Virtual, Nov. 2023.

· Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, and Joonhyuk Kang, “Fast-Convergent Federated Learning via Cyclic Aggregation”, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Process. (ICIP), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 2023. (Oral)

· Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, and Joonhyuk Kang, “Security-Preserving Federated Learning via Byzantine-Sensitive Triplet Distance”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16519, Oct. 2022.

· Youngjoon Lee and Joonhyuk Kang, “FedLN: Federated Learning with Local Normalization”, Joint Conf. Commun. Inf. (JCCI), April 2021.

Patent

· “Method and Device for Federated Learning Using Variable Learning Rate”, Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, Jinu Gong, and Joonhyuk Kang, Patent No. 10-2023-0086433, July 2023.

· “Method and System for Byzantine-Resilient and Personalized Distributed Learning”, Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, and Joonhyuk Kang, Registration No. 10-2522053, April 2023.

· “Nerual Network Training Method and Appratus Using Federated Learning”, Youngjoon Lee, Sangwoo Park, and Joonhyuk Kang, Registration No. 10-2479793-0000, Dec. 2022.

· “Federated Learning Method and System”, Youngjoon Lee and Joonhyuk Kang, Registration No. 10-2390553-0000, April 2022.


Reference

Award

3rd place in the 34th National University Students Mathematics
1st place in the 8th Ulsan Mayor’s Swimming Competition

Scholarship

KAIST Academic Scholarship
National Science and Engineering Scholarship
UNIST Academic Scholarship