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, 2016Publications
Socially situated artificial intelligence enables learning from human interaction
Ranjay Krishna, Donsuk Lee, Li Fei-Fei*, Michael Bernstein* (​* = equal last authors)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2022Controlled-rearing studies of newborn chicks and deep neural networks (Oral presentation, Best Paper Award)
Donsuk Lee, Pranav Gujarathi, Justin N. WoodNeurIPS Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence (SVRHM), 2021Modeling Object Recognition in Newborn Chicks using Deep Neural Networks (Oral presentation, top 22%)
Donsuk Lee, Denizhan Pak, Justin N. WoodAnnual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2021Joint Interaction and Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving using Graph Neural Networks
Donsuk Lee, Yiming Gu, Jerrick Hoang, Micol Marchetti-BowickNeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving, 2019Engagement Learning: Generating AI Datasets by Engaging Online Participants
Ranjay Krishna*, Donsuk Lee*, Li Fei-Fei, Michael BernsteinACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2018Investigation of Friction Characteristics of a Tendon Driven Wearable Robotic Hand
Hyun Ki In, Donsuk Lee, Kyu-Jin ChoInternational Conference on Control Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2010Posters & Abstracts
Reverse engineering the origins of visual intelligence
Justin N. Wood, Donsuk Lee, Brian W. Wood, Samantha M. W. WoodAnnual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) ,2020A Machine Learning Platform for Linking Controlled Rearing to Artificial Intelligence
Donsuk Lee, Brian W. Wood, Samantha M. W. Wood, Justin N. WoodCognitive Development Society (CDS), 2019Experience
Uber ATG, Software Engineering Intern
2019Pittsburgh, PAAutonomous DrivingHiHello, Research Intern
2018Palo Alto, CABusiness card recognition with humans-in-the-loopSamsung Research, Research Intern
2016Seoul, KoreaAdvanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS)Hansol NexG, Software Engineer
2012 - 2014Seoul, KoreaNetwork security and threat management system