Sunwoo Lee
Associate Professor
Short Bio
Sunwoo Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Inha University, where he leads the Large-scale Machine Learning Systems Lab. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Hanyang University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, followed by a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Southern California. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at the Memory Solutions Lab, Samsung Electronics. His research interests include numerical optimization-based machine learning, federated learning, and systems-efficient machine learning, with a focus on making large-scale model training more efficient across heterogeneous computing environments.
Education
- 2015–2020
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, USA
- 2003–2009
- B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea
Experience
- 2020–2022
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California, USA
- 2013–2015
- System Software Researcher, Memory Solutions Lab, Samsung Electronics, South Korea
- 2009–2013
- System Software Engineer (Alternative Military Service), HUMAX, South Korea
Research Interests
- System-efficient Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Distributed / Federated Learning
- Deep Learning Theory
- Applied Machine Learning / Deep Learning for Physics
Services
- 2022–2026
- NeurIPS
- 2024–2027
- ICLR
- 2022–2026
- ICML
- 2022–2027
- AAAI
- 2021–2022
- AISTATS
- 2023–2026
- KDD (Outstanding Reviewer, KDD 2024)
- 2025–2026
- CVPR
- 2026
- ARR (ACL, EMNLP)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
- IEEE Cluster
- ACM Transactions on Intelligence Systems and Technology
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Neurocomputing
- Neural Networks