Hyunin Lee
Scholar

Hyunin Lee

Google Scholar ID: kHTDu1YAAAAJ
University of California, Berkeley
reinforcement learningoptimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
86
 
H-index
4
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
9
 
Co-authors
7
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications:
  • * New paper on Multi-Modal Learning: Orthogonal Alignment, to be presented in ICML2025
  • * Extension of Black Swan paper: Antifragile, to be presented in ICML2025
  • * A Black Swan Hypothesis: The Role of Human Irrationality in AI Safety, oral presentation at ICLR2025 workshop (Financial AI)
  • * Policy-based Primal-Dual Methods for Concave CMDP with Variance Reduction
  • * Pausing Policy Learning in Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning (ICML 2024, Oral, top 1%)
  • * Beyond Exact Gradients: Convergence of Stochastic Soft-Max Policy Gradient Methods with Entropy Regularization (IEEE TAC)
  • * Tempo Adaption in Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning (NeurIPS 2023)
  • * Initial State Interventions for Deconfounded Imitation Learning (CDC 2023)
  • * Explainable Deep Learning Model for EMG-Based Finger Angle Estimation using Attention (IEEE TNSRE)
  • - Awards:
  • * Berkeley research fellowship, 2024
  • * NeurIPS scholar award, 2023
  • * Kwanjeong Education Foundation Scholarship, 2022
  • - Projects:
  • * Working with OUTTA to create intuitive AI educational materials
  • - Reviewer Experience:
  • * Reviewer for ICML, RLC, and Neurips 2025
  • * Reviewer for ICLR, AISTATS 2025
  • * Reviewer for ICML 2024
Research Experience
  • - Research Scientist Intern (Ranking team) at Meta, Summer 2025
  • - Research Associate at OpenAI, started in March 2025
  • - Co-founded and leading the AI PLAYGROUND team, dedicated to creating intuitive AI educational materials for elementary education, launched in October 2023
Education
  • - Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 2022.08 - Present, Advisor: Somayeh Sojoudi
  • - B.S.: Seoul National University, 2015.03 - 2022.02, Advisor: Yong-Lae Park (Served military service in Korean Combat Training Center, 2017.07 - 2019.03)
Background
  • - Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Modal Learning
  • - Professional Field: Developing reinforcement learning algorithms and exploring their key concepts
  • - About: Fourth-year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, interested in AI education, co-founded and currently advising OUTTA
Miscellany
  • - Interested in AI education, co-founded and currently advising OUTTA