Head of Research, MaumAI WoRV · Adjunct Professor, DGIST

Yunsung Lee

AI/ML Research Engineer

Leading research in Embodied AI, autonomous agents, and robotics foundation models — from top-tier publications to products used by millions.

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10+Publications

2,048Citations

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5M+MAUs reached

Research news

PonderPounce project →

September 2026

PonderPounce reaches #1 on RoboMME

PonderPounce-9B topped the official RoboMME Regular Leaderboard with 60.83% overall success, a 16.32 percentage-point lead over the next model (September 29 standings).

September 2026

Accepted to WRL @ NeurIPS 2026

PonderPounce was accepted to the 8th Robot Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026: Is Physical AI Going Zero-Shot? Read the paper →

Recent publications

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2026PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot ControlWRL @ NeurIPS'26

2026CostNav: A Navigation Benchmark for Real-World Economic-Cost Evaluation of Physical AI AgentsCoRL'26

2026Not All Prediction Targets Keep Training-Free Diffusion Guidance on the ManifoldECCV'26

2026D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AIICLR'26

2026WorldCam: Interactive Autoregressive 3D Gaming Worlds with Camera Pose as a Unifying Geometric RepresentationVideoWorldModel @ CVPR'26

2026vla-eval: A Unified Evaluation Harness for Vision-Language-Action ModelsFrom Data to Decisions @ ICRA'26

Appointed Adjunct Professor at DGIST, School of Undergraduate Studies — teaching undergraduate coursework in Physical AI. Course page →

Research areas

Vision-Language-Action AI

Expanding multimodal AI from vision and language to real-world action.

Diffusion Models

Generative AI and advanced diffusion-based approaches.

Embodied Agents

AI systems that perceive and act in real-world environments.

Agentic AI

Autonomous agents with reasoning and decision-making capabilities.

Experience

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MaumAIHead of Research, WoRV Team2025 —

DGISTAdjunct Professor, School of Undergraduate Studies2026 —

Wrtn TechnologiesAI Engineer2023 – 2025

RiiidResearch Scientist2022 – 2023

Scatter LabML Research Scientist2021 – 2022

NAVER CLOVAOCR Team Intern2020 – 2021

HYPERCONNECTML Team Intern2020

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