Junkyu Lee

Researcher, International Business Machines
Joined
February 2018

Names

Junkyu Lee (Preferred)

Emails

****@uci.edu (Confirmed)
****@ibm.com (Confirmed)
****@ics.uci.edu (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
International Business Machines (ibm.com)
2021Present
AI Resident
International Business Machines (ibm.com)
20212021
Researcher
TuSimple (tusimple.ai)
20202020
PhD student
University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)
20142020
MS student
University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)
20122014
MS student
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (kaist.ac.kr)
20052006
Undergrad student
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (kaist.ac.kr)
20002004

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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2024Present
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2022Present
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2022Present
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2014Present
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20212023
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20212023
PhD Advisor
20142020
PhD Advisor
20142020

Expertise

agentic AI; LLM applications
2025Present
reasoning in large language models
text-to-sql semantic parsing
uncertainty quantification in large language models
2024Present
causal reinforcement learning
2022Present
reinforcement learning
temporal abstraction
hierarchical reinforcement learning
2020Present
probabilistic inference
graphical model
variational inference
2014Present
probabilistic planning
influence diagram
sequential decision making
2014Present
heuristic search
AND/OR search
2014Present

Publications

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Co-Authors