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.

Yunsung Lee
10+Publications
1,993Citations
10h-index
5M+MAUs reached

Recent publications

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2026Not All Prediction Targets Keep Training-Free Diffusion Guidance on the ManifoldECCV'26
2026CostNav: A Navigation Benchmark for Real-World Economic-Cost Evaluation of Physical AI AgentsScaleBot @ CVPR'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
2026D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AIICLR'26
2024Multi-Architecture Multi-Expert Diffusion ModelsAAAI'24
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

Get in touch

Always happy to connect with fellow researchers and discuss new ideas in AI and machine learning.