Soo-Young Lee

SYL is currently a Co-Founder and CTO of NEOALI, a start-up company working on AI services for people with speech and language disorders. He is a Professor Emeritus of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and was the Founding Director of KAIST Institute for AI. From 1986 to 2018 he has worked on brain-inspired AI, and led Korean Brain Engineering Program and Emotional Conversational Agent Project. Both projects consisted of more than 20 professors and 5 organizations. His group marked Top-1 for the emotion recognition challenge from facial images (EmotiW; Emotion Recognition in the Wild) at ACM ICMI2015 and 3rd ranked at ConvAI2017 challenge at NIPS2017. He was President of Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society, and received the Outstanding Achievement Award from APNNA. He is a Fellow of International Neural Network Society (INNS), and received Presidential Award from INNS.

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This work was supported by National Rehabilitation Center, Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare.
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