Honglak Lee

Professor of CSE
U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
&
Senior VP and Chief Scientist
LG AI Research

Sloan Research Fellow

Address (UM):
3773 Bob and Betty Beyster Building
2260 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Email:

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2010
(Dissertation Advisor: Andrew Ng)
M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2006
M.S. in Applied Physics, Stanford University, 2006
B.S. in Physics and Computer Science (double major), Seoul National University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae

Research Overview

My research interests lie in machine learning and its applications to artificial intelligence. In particular, I focus on deep learning and representation learning, which aims to learn an abstract representation of the data by a hierarchical and compositional structure. My research also spans over related topics, such as graphical models, optimization, and large-scale learning. Specific application areas include computer vision, audio recognition, robotics, text modeling, and healthcare.

Keywords: Deep Learning, Unsupervised Feature Learning, Semi-supervised Learning, Transfer Learning, Graphical Models, Optimization, Large-scale Learning

Google Scholar Profile

Awards and Honors

Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016
Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professor, 2016
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2015
Associate Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), 2015
AI's 10 to Watch, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2013
Google Faculty Research Award, 2011
Research Highlights, Communications of the ACM, 2011
Best Application Paper, ICML, 2009
Best Student Paper, CEAS, 2005
Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2003-2006
PhD Fellowship from Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), 2003-2008
College Student Scholarship from Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), 1997–2001
Honorable Mention in the 16th University Students Contest of Mathematics, 1997
Undergraduate Scholarship from Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), 1996–1999
The First Place in the Entrance Examination of College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, 1996
The 12th place out of 344,780 applicants in Nationwide College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), South Korea, 1996
Silver Medal in the 26th International Physics Olympiad, Canberra, Australia, 1995