Yong Jae Lee is an associate professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on creating intelligent systems that can learn to understand the visual world with minimal supervision. Before joining UW-Madison in 2021, he spent six wonderful years as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, and was a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University (2012-2013) and University of California, Berkeley (2013-2014). He is a recipient of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award, NSF CAREER Award, AWS ML Research Award, Adobe Data Science Research Award, UC Davis College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and Sony Focused Research Award. He and his collaborators received the Most Innovative Award at COCO Object Detection Challenge ICCV 2019 and Best Paper Award at BMVC 2020.
A word from Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Chair of Computer Sciences:
Yong Jae performs research in computer vision, striving to create scalable recognition systems that learn to understand visual data with minimal human supervision. His work has earned him a series of highly selective awards, including NSF Career, ARO Young Investigator, Adobe Data Science Research, and AWS Machine Learning Research Awards.