Hello! 안녕하세요! I am Jaeung Lee, an AI Research Engineer at Samsung Research.
My research interests lie in visualization for machine learning, with a particular focus on how interactive interfaces can support model evaluation and facilitate human-centered decision-making.
Before joining Samsung Research, I received my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in 2026 and 2024, respectively. During my master’s program, I worked at the Interactive Data Computing Lab under the supervision of Prof. Jaemin Jo.
News
- Jul 2026
👾 New personal website launched!
- Jun 2026
⭐ Unlearning Comparator reached 100 GitHub stars!
- May 2026
📄 Measuring the Depth of LLM Unlearning via Activation Patching is now on arXiv.
- Mar 2026
🚀 Joined Samsung Research as an AI Research Engineer.
Experience
Samsung Electronics
Research Engineer @ Samsung Research
Seoul, Korea
Mar 2026 —PresentAI System Team, AI Center
- Designing next-generation on-device architectures for vision-language and embedding models.
Sungkyunkwan University
Research Assistant @ IDC Lab
Suwon, Korea
Sep 2024 —Feb 2026Research
- Visualization and Human-Computer (AI) Interaction for ML, AI safety, and mechanistic interpretability.
- Published 4 papers: 2 first-authored (TVCG, EMNLP) and 2 co-authored (VIS, WWW), with another in progress.
- Built PediaViz, a clinical visualization system for pediatric chronic care, with NAVER and SNU Hospital.
Teaching Assistant
- Fundamentals of Machine Learning (2024 Fall, 2025 Spring, 2025 Fall).
- Wrote the assignments, exams, and lab sessions. Course materials
- Ranked 1st in student evaluation scores for three consecutive semesters.
deep daiv.
Project Mentor & Content Reviewer
Feb 2024 —Jan 2025Project Mentoring
- Mentored explainable AI (XAI) and computer vision projects for 100+ members.
Content Review
- Reviewed AI articles and newsletters before publication for deep daiv., the largest Korean student AI community on Instagram with 40K+ followers.
Sungkyunkwan University
Undergraduate Researcher
Suwon, Korea
Jul 2023 —Aug 2024IDC Lab Jan 2024 — Aug 2024
- Contributed to Bavisitter, a system that folds visualization design guidelines into LLM-based chart authoring.
VSCLab, now V-Lab @ Yonsei University Jul 2023 — Dec 2023
- Built Satellite Image Building Area Segmentation, placing 2nd among roughly 1,000 participants.
Education
Sungkyunkwan University
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Suwon, Korea
Sep 2024 —Feb 2026GPA: 4.43/4.5 · Graduated early
- Advisor: Prof. Jaemin Jo
- Thesis: Unlearning Comparator: A Visual Analytics System for Comparative Evaluation of Machine Unlearning Methods
Sungkyunkwan University
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
Suwon, Korea
Mar 2018 —Aug 2024Overall GPA: 4.32/4.5 · Major GPA: 4.4/4.5
- Summa Cum Laude, Ranked 1st in the cohort
- Military service in the Republic of Korea Army (July 2020–January 2022)
Publications
DECODE: Diagnosing Interpretability Failures in Automated Interpretation Process
Ongoing work.
Measuring the Depth of LLM Unlearning via Activation Patching
Jaeung Lee, Dohyun Kim, and Jaemin Jo
Preprint, 2026.
Suppression or Deletion: A Restoration-Based Representation-Level Analysis of Machine Unlearning
Yurim Jang, Jaeung Lee, Dohyun Kim, Jaemin Jo, and Simon S. Woo
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW '26), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2026.
Unlearning Comparator: A Visual Analytics System for Comparative Evaluation of Machine Unlearning Methods
Jaeung Lee, Suhyeon Yu, Yurim Jang, Simon S. Woo, and Jaemin Jo
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2852–2867, 2026.
Bavisitter: Integrating Design Guidelines into Large Language Models for Visualization Authoring
Jiwon Choi, Jaeung Lee, and Jaemin Jo
Proceedings of Conference on 2024 IEEE Visualization & Visual Analytics (IEEE VIS), St. Pete Beach, USA.
Miscellaneous
Honors & Awards
- Aug 2024
DX Scholarship, Samsung Electronics
Full tuition for the entire master’s program (2024–2025).
- Aug 2024
Graduate Fellowship, Sungkyunkwan University
Ranked 1st in Computer Science and Engineering
- Full tuition for the entire master’s program (2024–2025)
- Aug 2023
2nd Place, Best Award, AI Challenge, Ministry of Science and ICT
Developed a semantic segmentation model to detect buildings in satellite imagery.
- Ranked 2nd among approximately 1,000 participants
- Received the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) Director’s Award
- Aug 2023
Merit Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University
Awarded to the top 3% of Computer Science and Engineering
- Covered 70% of tuition (2023–2024)
- Feb 2018
Sungkyun Software Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University
Full tuition scholarship (2018–2019).
Skills
Research
Visual Analytics, Mechanistic Interpretability, NLP, ML
Frontend
React, TypeScript, Visualization (D3, Vega, …)
Backend
Python, FastAPI, Docker, PostgreSQL, AWS (S3, EC2, …)
Design
Figma, Design Study, User Research, Prototyping
Certificate
Samsung S/W Certificate (PRO)