Dr. Youngjoon Lee, an alumnus of the Advanced Radio Technology (ART) Lab in the KAIST School of Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Joonhyuk Kang), has been appointed as a tenure-track faculty member in the School of Software at Kwangwoon University, effective September 1, 2026.
Dr. Lee received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from UNIST and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST. After completing his master’s degree, he worked as a researcher at government-funded research institutes. In particular, he addressed practical defense challenges as a researcher in the Military Capability Assessment Division of the Center for Military Analysis and Planning at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). He then returned to KAIST to pursue his Ph.D., extending the research questions he encountered in practice through academic study. His doctoral dissertation, “Data-Free Early Stopping Framework for Practical Federated Learning,” investigates how to determine an appropriate stopping point for federated learning without relying on a separate validation dataset.
At KIDA, Dr. Lee contributed to research supporting military capability assessment and defense decision-making using analytical methodologies, including modeling and computer simulation. He also leveraged defense AI, data analytics, and wargaming simulations to support defense policy and force planning, while investigating reliable analytical methods suited to constrained defense environments.
At Kwangwoon University, Dr. Lee will pursue research and education in practical and privacy-preserving AI, with the broader goal of developing methods that can be applied effectively in real-world environments.
We sincerely congratulate Dr. Lee on his faculty appointment and look forward to his future achievements.
