Hojoon Lee
AI Research Scientist at Holiday Robotics
Seongnam-si, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolHojoon Lee is an AI research scientist and third-year PhD candidate at KAIST specializing in reinforcement learning for dexterous manipulation and vision-based agents. Over eight years in industry and research, he has shipped RL systems for games and robotics at organizations including SonyAI, Meta, KRAFTON, and Holiday Robotics. His work spans building open-source RL frameworks, post-training LLM reinforcement for chess, and vision-based RL agents for Gran Turismo 7, demonstrating a blend of applied research and production engineering. He frequently bridges academic rigor with hands-on system implementation, advised by Jaegul Choo and maintaining an active project portfolio at joonleesky.github.io. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, Hojoon is notable for moving quickly between high-impact short-term industry research projects and longer-term PhD work, bringing practical results into academic inquiry.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Korea UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (37)
ray8
optimization8
python8
reinforcement-learning8
parallel8
pytorch7
java7
machine-learning7
tensorflow7
keras7
hyperparameter-optimization7
deep-learning7
sequential7
api6
scaling6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joonleesky/joonleesky.github.io
Jul 2018 - Apr 2022
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Contributions:90 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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joonleesky/2021_davian_deep_learning_study
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 16 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year
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