Wooyoung Lee

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Pittsburgh

PA

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Machine

Learning

Department

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Mellon

University

EDUCATION

PhD candidate of Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA (Expected graduation date : May 2014)

MS in Machine Learning, CMU (May 2012)

MS in Interdisciplinary Program in Brain Sciences,

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (June 2007)

BS in Biological Sciences (Minor: Psychology)

SNU, Seoul, South Korea (February 2005)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Natural Perception Laboratory, EECS, Case Western Reserve University

Advisor: Michael S. Lewicki (September 2009 – Present)

Computational Perception Laboratory, School of Computer Science, CMU

Advisor: Michael S. Lewicki (September 2007 – August 2009)

Vision and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Program in Brain Sciences, SNU

Advisor: Sang-Hun Lee (March 2005 – June 2007)

Neurobiology Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, SNU

Advisor: Bong-Kiun Kaang (March 2004 – August 2005)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Doctoral Study Abroad Scholarship, Samsung Foundation, 2007-2012

Doctoral Study Abroad Scholarship, Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies, 2007 – 2011

Student Travel Award, Vision Science Society, May 2005

(Awarded to the top 10 students or postdoctoral fellows on a competitive basis)

Graduated Summa Cum Laude, SNU, February 2005

Independent Study Scholarship, SNU, 2004

Undergraduate Student Research Award, SNU, 2004

Academic Excellence Scholarship, SNU, 2001-2005

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching assistant for Optimization, CMU, Fall 2012

With Professors Geoff Gordon and Ryan Tibshirani

Teaching assistant for Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, CMU, Fall 2010

With Professors Yaser Sheikh and Illah Nourbakhsh

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Vision Science, SNU, Fall 2005

With Professor Sang-Hun Lee

Teaching assistant for Experimental Psychology and Lab., SNU, Spring 2005

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PUBLICATIONS

Conference Presentations

1. Lee, W., & Lewicki, M.S. Learning global properties of scene images based on their correlational

structures, Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning Workshop at NIPS, 2012

2. Lee, W., & Lewicki, M.S. Adaptive representations of scenes based on ICA mixture model,

Big Vision Workshop at NIPS, 2012

3. Lee, W. -Y., & Lee, S.-H. Dynamics of line motion illusion reflects the anatomical and functional

architecture of the early visual cortex, Journal of Vision, 5(8), 899a, 2005

4. Lee, W. -Y., & Lee, S.-H. Dynamics of line motion illusion reflects the functional architecture of

the early visual cortex, 35th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, 2005

Master’s thesis

1. Lee. W. Learning global properties of scene images based on their correlational structures.

Carnegie Mellon University, 2012

2. Lee. W. The dynamics of line motion illusion is constrained by the collinearity of its cues and line

parts. Seoul National University, 2007

ONGOING PROJECTS

1. Lee, W., & Lewicki, M.S. Learning global properties of scene images based on multiscale

correlational patterns

2. Balcan, D.C., & Lee, W. The Newton’s method and beyond for the density coding model

3. Lee, W., Gordon, G., & Lewicki, M.S. Factorizing images into shape and texture

RELATED COURSEWORK

@

CMU

Machine Learning, Intermediate Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning,

Multimedia Databases and Data Mining, Algorithms in the Real World,

Computer Vision, Computational Perception, Applied Bayesian Methods,

Optimization, From Pixels to Percepts

@

SNU

Neural Network, Optical Image Processing, Principles of Neuroscience,

Advanced Vision Science, Differential Equations, Complex Variables,

Probability Theory and Applications

SKILLS

MATLAB (expert), C++, Java, Python (previous exposure)

Programming

Languages

Spoken

Languages

English (fluent), Korean (native)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Social Committee for Machine Learning Department, CMU, 2009-2010

President of Korean Computer Science Scholars, CMU, 2008-2010

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