Yunsung Lee is Head of Research at Maum AI’s WoRV division, leading world-models and control research for self-driving and robotics after a decade advancing multimodal and personalization research across startups and industry labs. He combines hands-on ML research—spanning vision-and-language dialogue, OCR, and text-to-image diffusion—with applied systems work in memory and personalization for autonomous agents. A Korea University master's graduate and former Carnegie Mellon visiting scholar, he served technical alternative military service while delivering production-focused AI features at Riiid and wrtn technologies. Known for bridging academic rigor with product impact, he favors research that directly informs control and perception stacks in deployed robotic systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Korea University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering at Hanyang University
Visiting Scholar Artificial Intelligence, Visiting Scholar Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University
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