Ayoung Lee

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Ayoung Lee (이아영)

Ph.D. Student
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Michigan
location Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Hi, I am a 1st-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lu Wang. My current interests are, but not limited to:

Feel free to contact me for collaboration or questions!

(Last updated on Apr 16)

News

  • (03/2025) Received Best Presentation Award at NLP @ Michigan Day.
  • (08/2024) Started my Ph.D. at University of Michigan. Excited for the new academic journey!
  • (07/2024) I was selected as the recipient of the scholarship from Kwanjeong Educational Foundation(KEF), a merit-based prestigious scholarship in South Korea.

    • Education

    University of Michigan (08/2024 ~ Present)

    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (Advisor: Lu Wang)

    Seoul National University (03/2020 ~ 02/2024)

    B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
    GPA: 4.18/4.3 (cumulative), 4.17/4.3 (major)
    Summa Cum Laude, Rank: 1st in the department

    Seoul Science High School (03/2017 ~ 02/2020)

    The school for gifted students in mathematics and science, teaching college-level math and science
    GPA: 4.18/4.3 (cumulative)

    Work Experience

    Naver Cloud HealthCare AI (03/2024 ~ 06/2024)

    Research Intern
  • Contributed to the curation of an EMR note retrieval dataset using entity linking algorithms

    • Language and Data Intelligence Lab (03/2023 ~ 02/2024)

    Undergraduate Research Intern (Advisor: Prof. Seung-won Hwang)
  • Participated in improving language-based image editing interface using cycle consistency
  • Published in the IJCNLP-AACL workshop as a co-first author

    • DeepMetrics (06/2022 ~ 01/2023)

    Machine Learning Engineering Intern (Advisor: Prof. Hyun Oh Song)
  • Participated in medical data preprocessing & developed algorithms for autonomous ventilator manipulation

    • Samsung Device Solutions Memory (07/2021 ~ 08/2021)

    Software Intern
  • Participated in semiconductor wafer anomaly detection using machine learning algorithms

    • Honors and Awards

    Best Presentation Award, NLP @ Michigan Day (03/2025)

    Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship (08/2024 ~ Present)

    Outstanding Student Commendation from the Alumni Association (02/2024)

    Excellent Bachelor's Thesis Presentation Award (02/2024)

    SNU Tomorrow's Engineers Membership (03/2022 ~ 08/2022)

    Outstanding Tutor Award (08/2021)

    Presidential Science Scholarship (03/2020 ~ 02/2024)

    Publications

    Multicultural Value Understanding in Language Models
    Ongoing project

    LiveOIBench: Can Large Language Models Outperform Human Contestants in Informatics Olympiads?
    Kaijian Zou, Aaron Xiong, Yunxiang Zhang, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Yueqi Ren, Jirong Yang, Ayoung Lee, Shitanshu Bhushan, Lu Wang
    Submitted to ICLR 2026

    Logit Arithmetic Elicits Long Reasoning Capabilities Without Training
    Yunxiang Zhang, Muhammad Khalifa, Lechen Zhang, Xin Liu, Ayoung Lee, Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Farima Fatahi Bayat, Lu Wang
    COLM 2025, The 1st Workshop on Test-time Scaling and Reasoning Models, Submitted to ARR 2025 Oct [paper]

    CLASH: Evaluating Language Models on Judging High-Stakes Dilemmas from Multiple Perspectives
    Ayoung Lee, Ryan Sungmo Kwon, Peter Railton, Lu Wang
    Preprint, Submitted to ICLR 2026 [paper]

    On Consistency Training for Language-Based Image Editing Interface
    Youngwon Lee*, Ayoung Lee*, Yeonjoon Jung, Seung-won Hwang (* denotes equal contribution)
    IJCNLP-AACL 2023, Second Workshop on Natural Language Interfaces (Oral) [paper] [code]

    Talks

    Injecting Math Reasoning Abilities in Language Models @ Deepest, Seoul National University (06/2024)

    Study Abroad Presentation for Students @ Seoul Science High School (05/2024)

    Teaching

    (M1522.000700) Logic Design @ Seoul National University (09/2021 ~ 12/2021)

    Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Prof. Jihong Kim)

    (034.005) Foundation of Physics 1 @ Seoul National University (03/2021 ~ 08/2021)

    Peer Tutor

    (M1522.000700) Logic Design @ Seoul National University (03/2021 ~ 08/2021)

    Tutor