Yongjae Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,

Department of Industrial Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Graduate School, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Office: Bld. 112 Rm 301-7 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-52-217-3118 Google Scholar, Facebook, LinkedIn

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, UNIST, Korea, 2024 to Present
Associate Professor, Artificial Intelligence Graduate School, UNIST, Korea, 2024 to Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, UNIST, Korea, 2018 to 2024
BK Assistant Professor, Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Seoul National University, Korea, 2017 to 2018
Post-doctoral Researcher, KAIST Center for Wealth Management Technologies, Korea, 2016 to 2017

Other academic positions and services

Journals
- Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Journal of Financial Data Science, 2020 to Present
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Statistical and Machine Learning for Investor Modelling, The Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2023 to 2024
Academic society
- Executive Director and Chair of Financial AI Committee, The Korean Association of Financial Engineering (한국금융공학회), 2023 to present
Conferences
- Organizing Committee (Workshop Chair), The 5th International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF’24), New York, US, November 2024
- Program Committee, ICAIF’23, ICAIF‘24, NeurIPS’24, ICLR’25, AISTATS’25, ICML’25
Workshops
- Organizing Committee, ICLR 2025 Workshop on Advances in Financial AI: Opportunities, Innovations, and Responsible AI, Singapore, April 2025
- Technical Program Committee, AAAI-25 Workshop on AI for Social Impact: Bridging Innovations in Finance, Social Media, and Crime Prevention, Philadelphia, USA, March 2025
- Organizing Committee (Lead Organizer), IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, August 2024
- Organizing Committee, ICAIF’23 Workshop on Machine Learning for Investor Modelling and Recommender Systems, New York, USA, November 2023
Competitions
- Organizing Committee, The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th UNIST-KAIST-POSTECH Data Science Competition

Visiting positions

Visiting Researcher, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2014 (Advisor: Professors John M. Mulvey and Frank J. Fabozzi)
Visiting Researcher, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2012 (Advisor: Professors John M. Mulvey and Frank J. Fabozzi)

Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2016 *Thesis Title: Demystifying Diversification Strategies by using Portfolio Optimization Techniques Advisor: Professor Woo Chang Kim