LEE Joonseok

Head of Defense AI Research Institute (Executive Senior Vice President), Hanwha Aerospace

LEE Joonseok
Times of the Remarks 2026. 11. 05. 9:50-10:05
Title Defense AI: An Imperative, No Longer a Choice

LEE JoonSeok has been a professor at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Data Science since 2021, where he leads the Visual Information Processing Lab. Since September 2026, he has concurrently served as Head of the Defense AI Research Institute at Hanwha Aerospace, with the rank of Executive Senior Vice President. In this role, he oversees research into essential technologies for defense AI, their integration into products, and the development of strategic directions for the field.

He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015. Over ten years at Google Research, he contributed to the research and development of large-scale video processing algorithms and platforms for YouTube video search and recommendation systems.

He has published more than 80 papers at leading AI conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, and CVPR, and serves as an Area Chair and reviewer for major academic conferences.