Dongsu Lee

Hello! I am a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, where I'm supervised by Prof. Amy Zhang in the MIDI Lab. Previous affiliation. I collaborated with Prof. Ding Zhao in the Safe AI Lab, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU); with Prof. Minhae Kwon in the BMIL; and Prof. Sangsoo Kim in the Post-genome Informatics Lab at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea.

The research question I focus on is simple these days: Will reinforcement learning (RL) methods be applicable for practical deployment in realistic settings? I’m interested in real-world challenges, e.g, partial observability, coordination with unseen partners, and human-robot collaboration. Then, I aim to make an RL algorithm applicable in multi-agent, open-ended, and robotics settings via both self-play and data-driven techniques. So, I work on multi-agent RL, representation learning, and offline-online RL.

My guiding ethos. Speak truth, amid echoing scorn.
Embrace adventure, born of conviction.
Take responsibility, without retreat.

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