
Dr. Sangmin Lee, who earned his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST in 2023, has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Korea University, starting September 2025.
Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Lee conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Georgia Institute of Technology, where he delved deeply into the field of Multimodal Learning. His recent work expands into Social AI, focusing on understanding and predicting human social interactions through multimodal technologies.
Dr. Lee has garnered attention for his cutting-edge research, with multiple publications at CVPR, the premier conference on computer vision, demonstrating his global competitiveness in the field.
We extend our congratulations to Dr. Lee and celebrate the continued excellence of KAIST School of Electrical Engineering alumni. We look forward to his future contributions to academia and beyond.