Donsuk Lee
I am a PhD Candidate in Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. I am currently working with Professor Justin Wood.
My research interest lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, developmental psychology and cognitive science. My research goal is to understand the origins and basis of intelligence. How do newborn organisms learn to perceive the world? What are the computational principles and learning algorithms in newborn brains? I attempt to address these problems by building autonomous artificial agents and comparing their learning abilities with newborn animals.
Before coming to Indiana University, I received M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where I did research with Prof. Fei-Fei Li and Prof. Michael Bernstein on Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science at Caltech.
Email: donslee [at] iu [dot] edu
Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Ph.D. in Informatics & Cognitive Science, 2023 (expected)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D. in Computer Science, (transferred to Indiana University)Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S. in Computer Science, 2018Caltech, Pasadena, CA
B.S. in Computer Science, 2016Peer-Reviewed Publications
Parallel development of social preferences in fish and machines
Joshua McGraw, Donsuk Lee, Justin N. Wood
CogSci, 2023
A newborn embodied Turing test for view-invariant object recognition
Denizhan Pak, Donsuk Lee, Samantha M.W. Wood, Justin N. Wood
CogSci, 2023
Socially situated artificial intelligence enables learning from human interaction
Ranjay Krishna, Donsuk Lee, Li Fei-Fei*, Michael Bernstein* (* = equal last authors)
PNAS, 2022 [Media Coverage: Science, TechXplore]
Controlled-rearing studies of newborn chicks and deep neural networks
Donsuk Lee, Pranav Gujarathi, Justin N. Wood
NeurIPS SVRHM Workshop, 2021 [Oral presentation & Best Paper Award]
Modeling Object Recognition in Newborn Chicks using Deep Neural Networks
Donsuk Lee, Denizhan Pak, Justin N. Wood
CogSci, 2021 [Oral presentation, top 22%]
Joint Interaction and Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving using Graph Neural Networks
Donsuk Lee, Yiming Gu, Jerrick Hoang, Micol Marchetti-Bowick
NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving, 2019
Engagement Learning: Generating AI Datasets by Engaging Online Participants
Ranjay Krishna*, Donsuk Lee*, Li Fei-Fei, Michael Bernstein
UIST, 2018
Investigation of Friction Characteristics of a Tendon Driven Wearable Robotic Hand
Hyun Ki In, Donsuk Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho
ICCAS, 2010
Posters & Abstracts
Reverse engineering the origins of visual intelligence
Justin N. Wood, Donsuk Lee, Brian W. Wood, Samantha M. W. WoodCogSci,2020A Machine Learning Platform for Linking Controlled Rearing to Artificial Intelligence
Donsuk Lee, Brian W. Wood, Samantha M. W. Wood, Justin N. WoodCDS, 2019Experience
Hansol NexG, Software Engineer
2012 - 2014Seoul, KoreaNetwork security and threat management system