Dr. Hong Joo Lee, an alumnus of the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Yong Man Ro), has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, effective March 1, 2026.
Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation titled “Investigating Adversarial Robustness via Booster Signal.” During his doctoral studies, he participated in the Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (CARAI) for National Defense Research. His research has been widely recognized through numerous publications in top-tier conferences and journals, including CVPR, IEEE TIP, and IEEE TNNLS.
After receiving his doctorate in 2023, Dr. Lee served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. His postdoctoral work focused on the reliability of AI models in the medical field, leading to further high-impact publications in ECCV, MICCAI, and AAAI.
In his new role as a professor, Dr. Lee plans to deepen his research on Reliable Intelligence Systems, focusing on the vulnerability, safety, and fairness of AI models.
